Pay SE while game is down

[Kinyoto]

Hypothetically if SE offered an option for you to continue paying for FFXIV services while it's down for the ARR transition & offered bonuses (other than the Legacy ones), would you have chosen to do so?

I know it's too late for SE to offer it, and not like they would but I think it merits an interesting discussion topic.

I for one would have taken the offer. Whatever bonuses they could have concocted would look nice next to my Legacy bird.

[valetarkus]

I don't think i would have wanted to do this. Only because any progress i make will get trashed when ARR comes out. All that hard work...

[rina_inverse]

If you want to donate money to SE, go ahead and donate. Ask nothing for it

I personally will ask nothing

[Undrentide]

I dont understand, why would you want to pay for something your not getting?

[rina_inverse]

its called donation?

[Elexia]

I dont understand, why would you want to pay for something your not getting?

Same reason people pay for stuff you should have gotten when you purchase new games. Especially new capcom games.

[Jynx]

This isn't Kickstarter, nor is this the proper enviroment to invest in a product to wait for a return at a later date.

We allready payed our dues in 1.0 to see the 2.0 release become a reality. SE is allready using the money we invested in the initial purchase and monthly fees to fund the release of 2.0 and beyond. Everything else is coming out of their pocket (We are unable to know how much money XIV made them at the initial launch but it's easy to speculate that due to the nature of MMO developement it wasn't enough to break even but at least soften the blow of the poorly received launch) Our continued funding into the following years as well couldn't have been running them at a net loss even with costs sky high due to work on 1.0 and 2.0 simultaniously chances are even when subs were low they were operating at a substantialy small loss.

We have allready givin them the oportunity to relaunch the game, it would speak volumes of how desperate they were if they asked us for (Even optionally) more money.

[rina_inverse]

We have allready givin them the oportunity to relaunch the game, it would speak volumes of how desperate they were if they asked us for (Even optionally) more money.

what he said
basically, if you want to give em money, ask nothing for return or dont event bother to give em money

[Loony_BoB]

If you want to help SE out, buy shares in SE. If you want to get relatively useless bonus digital items etc. for cash, buy the collector's edition. If you want SE merchandise, buy it from the shop. If you want useful bonus digital items etc. in an SE game in exchange for your cash, then you might be interested in Final Fantasy: All The Bravest.

[Gramul]

That would depend on the bonus, but I'm leaning to no.