Quote Originally Posted by rainfish View Post
I don't think this is honestly true, if they started charging tomorow the people that would leave woule be a) the ones that will quit anyway when its time to pay, so no loss or b) the ones that would return and pay when the game comes upto standard anway. Honestly I see no loss from charging at all aside from lower player numbers for a while, but they are already at that point anyway.
How is A no loss? Have you not read this thread? Most people posting will not pay, thus if you ask for money they will leave and bam you have lost yourself a significant playerbase and why exactly will they come back? They will just ignore the time spend in other games they have gone to?

For me, I'm sticking around until TERA EU release, then i will leave and see how it is in the future but i'll most likely never get stuck into XIV again unless TERA does something drastically bad that makes me dislike the game. But im not going to put all my time into TERA just to leave it, and others will be the same on any other game. They will have moved on.

If SE said "Okay we're going to start charging in June" I would not pay, and I'd check it out in a few years to see how it got on, but i doubt even then it'd be up to par on what current games are doing.

XIV is now like ps3, it will always be behind, it will always have the lower side of things and even though it might hit a nice peak, it'll come crashing down by some stupid event (xi = abyssea, ps3 = psn hack) which will reduce the numbers by great.