Account wipes after unsubscribing?

[jruu]

So I've been noticing that I'm having less and less time for FFXIV at the moment. When December hits though, I should have more free time. But I do have a question about subscription and accounts.

Say you do not renew or subscribe for the next month, will they cancel your account? I do plan on going back eventually, and I already spent a good amount of hours in the game. But I am concerned that if I do not pay, they will eventually wipe my account.
I remember in FFXI, if you did not renew or subscribe to your account for a certain amount of months, they will wipe your account. How is it on this game?

[Estellios]

Very few people have had their accounts wiped in FF11, and it was after years of inactivity.

So far in this game they have not to my knowledge ever wiped any accounts.

[RaphaelDDL]

I doubt they would wipe right away.

The question is the one you said at end, how many months to actually wipe.

[jruu]

So would I simply have to just pay the subscription when the time comes to get back into the game? all under the assumption that my account is still active and my character(s) are still at their currently level with all items.
Or would they have me restart everything from scratch.

as far as ffxi, I did have an account there and it got wiped after about 6 months after inactivity. A reason why I did not go back.

[Blazn]

I would imagine they would send some form of email notice a month or two before wiping a account, "Hey we noticed you haven't subscribed for X months, We want to tell you we will be erasing accounts after X months of inactivity" if for no reason other than to try to get people to sub for a random month now and then just to save their accounts.

[Orbital-Dragon]

They will not wipe your account without a good year or two of inactivity. However, I also would not worry about it too much, despite all that high talk by Yoshi about shutting down the game before going free...this game will be free to play within 6 months. Once they lose a multitude of subscribers they will rethink this.

[Dalok]

They will not wipe your account without a good year or two of inactivity. However, I also would not worry about it too much, despite all that high talk by Yoshi about shutting down the game before going free...this game will be free to play within 6 months. Once they lose a multitude of subscribers they will rethink this.

I doubt this game will be Free to Play, that model will ruin any and all potential this game has. I actually know more people who would quit because it goes Free to Play than people that aren't playing because you have to pay for it.

[Orbital-Dragon]

The game would be just fine as a free to play. And I only have about 7 gamer friends these days, 1 plays this game with me. Says he probably wont subscribe after beating Hard Modes, and my other friends refuse to pick it up because they said "we are not going back to the WoW way of life" No matter how much I brag about this game they refuse to give it a go with subscription.

[Dalok]

The game would be just fine as a free to play. And I only have about 7 gamer friends these days, 1 plays this game with me. Says he probably wont subscribe after beating Hard Modes, and my other friends refuse to pick it up because they said "we are not going back to the WoW way of life" No matter how much I brag about this game they refuse to give it a go with subscription.

Free to Play means less money to developers for actual content which means content will be released very slowly and there will be very little passion for the game, except Micro Transactions which are completely annoying to base a game around which is what F2P Models have to do to make money, notice how 90% of F2P Model Games shut down or are just never very good there is a reason for that, and it's because it turns into a huge single player game with some random other people running around, and Hard Modes are completed but there is still Coil to push I just will never understand not paying for a game, it's basically asking for the MMO to be worse.

[Zenaku]

They will not wipe your account without a good year or two of inactivity. However, I also would not worry about it too much, despite all that high talk by Yoshi about shutting down the game before going free...this game will be free to play within 6 months. Once they lose a multitude of subscribers they will rethink this.

Most if not all legacy members would quit if it goes F2P and same goes for some Non-legacy members. I know for sure i'll quit if this go F2P i just end up not playing any more mmo lol.