Wait until everyone's been billed

[nasomi]

If this were a wide-spread problem, you'd have more than 15 poeple posting about it, out of the 400,000 players that ti's working for. There might be a problem with a handful but it's not a majority.

And the delay isn't the wait to find everyone, it's an instance to be ready, otherwise it would say 0/1 for one of hte jobs. Still not ideal though.

[Silvyaniss]

LOL really ?

yah we'll see in around 1 year who's still hanging around I can guarantee you it won't be the casual ff gamers....count on it

[Trevor]

Well have fun with your ugly F2P/B2P MMO's

ignorance really is bliss I guess, 'cause there are a lot of good free to play mmos

best one is dnf

[Syamic]

I am not sure i will sub to this game when my free days run out.

There is not enough ways of Gil generation.

Bots are mining crafting crystals by the thousand's per bot who are in turn are making a huge amounts of Gil
and then selling it on to RMT sites that are buying it and spamming chat 24 hours a day.

SE do not seem to be doing a lot about it reports have been made for weeks and the bots are still at it.

There needs to be some GM's that are actually in game so any reports about Bot's/Spam can go directly to them and they can instant ban the accounts (after they have witnessed it for themselves) It's not hard to spot a mining bot that just teleports from one node to another.

Do IP blocks from Japan connecting to NA/EU and vice versa (only after server transfer is in operation) People transferring from JP to NA/EU and vice versa get a 1 time free transfer.

I may come back have a look 2 or 3 months after to check if anything does improve.

[rjh123456]

I am not sure i will sub to this game when my free days run out.
There is not enough ways of Gil generation.
Bots are mining crafting crystals by the thousand's per bot who are in turn are making a huge amounts of Gil
and then selling it on to RMT sites that are buying it and spamming chat 24 hours a day.
I may come back have a look 2 or 3 months after to check if anything does improve.

Same here, No sub for the following:

• Gil spam / bots
• Crazy lag, Canadian servers,
• Hour+ long Duty finders waits (and the party falls apart)
• One dungeon for myth tomestones
• Missing simple things, like right click ignore, or Inventory sort.
• Worst Customer Service I have ever dealt with.
  
  I also don't want to fate grind other classes, I would have liked to option to re do the quests

Not over keen on the community either (may improve after the free times runs out, may get worse who knows.)

For a game that's a re-boot (So god knows how much development time overall) I thinks its rather poor overall, So as above I will perhaps take another look in a few months IF this fabled 2.1 patch is released on time..

I got my £15 worth I suppose. Good luck to the rest of you, I hope you all have fun !

[Ahlen]

GW2 is an insult to the Guild Wars 1 legacy, and the only MMO purchase that I have regretted so far. Other than GW2, there are Tera, Aion, Rift, SWTOR that are f2p. If you consider ff14 a 7/10, then the pure f2p games aren't even 4/7. GW2 might be 5/10. Honestly, $15 a month to play a quality game is worth it for me (it's cheaper than a 2 hour movie trip).

I'd agree that Aion and SWTOR are shitty, also I understand why GW1 players wouldn't like GW2 (they're wrong, but hey what can you do?) I figure FFXIV will go for about 6 months, then switch to F2P and implement a cash shop. That or they'll just hang on with as few subs as possible. Ragnarok Online somehow held on with <10,000 subs. P2P MMO's just dont' really work anymore.

It's a brand new world, time to catch up.

[dragonblade369]

I'd agree that Aion and SWTOR are shitty, also I understand why GW1 players wouldn't like GW2 (they're wrong, but hey what can you do?)

I wouldn't mind if they release GW2 under a different name. They released a Guild Wars game without the Guild vs Guild PvP... which is Guild Wars! I have spent over 2000 hours on Guild Wars 1, finished Tyria and Cantha at 100% and Elona at 80% and did tons of high-end PvP. To me, GW2 seems just like a generic MMO that lacks flair.

FF14 has issues, I agree. However, I am hopeful that the issues will get fixed. I love this game (the third MMO that I really liked out of the huge amount of MMO that I played) and I will give this game a chance. I really hope that FF14 will succeed with P2P model because honestly, I feel that P2P always have a better community than F2P games. Also, I think SE deserves some money for this amazing game.

[Azoryl]

Just renewed for 90 days...

People who are complaining is silly. The game is better than most.

[Swishytail]

Really with the F2P/B2P crap again? You do realize that people spend upwards to $200/month on that garbage right?

And here we are complaining about $13/month. The jokes... they are endless.

[Azadross]

People are getting billed already? Legacy players? Still have 19 free days to go personally.

And yeah, they might have 50% player retention after free trial if they're really lucky. There are a lot of F2P and good MMO's out there (GW2 off the top of my head) so asking for a subscription means you really have to have a great product to keep people in. And while I'm enjoying FFXIV, it's maybe a 7/10 as far as MMO's go.

Personally I wouldn't be puting GW2 up there as any sort of shining light in the MMORPG sphere. And with F2P games I've played and spent money in a number of titles and now I'm done with them, unless of course you like lockboxes and being at first gently pushed and then at any sort of end-game shoved into the cash shop, yep no thanks.