FINAL FANTASY XIV Billing Information

[Priran]

10bux a month for a half finished MMO in a world where Skyrim, MW3, Saints Row 3, Minecraft, Terraria, Dark Souls, and WoW exist

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[Cureslime]

I'm really interested to know what the subscription numbers will actually be when the shit goes down. Of course it will maintain a reasonable number of Japanese players because Japan is Japan but will anyone in NA/EU stick around? What does FFXIV offer to a gamer besides a tight-knit community that will no longer exist when F2P ends?

[Alkar]

Extra anima

Chocobos and airships say hi.

[Aratharn]

We're getting player search and item search in 1.20... and both systems are being problematic to implement. I might remember wrong, but wasn't the delivery system one of those things that they mentioned they simply couldn't do in the current server architecture?

Yes.

D.box is not til 2.0 sadly.

[Lucavi]

I love how everyone cries about this but I'm willing to bet, come the end of January, most of them are still playing (and paying).

OK I could be wrong and SE could get a nasty surprise, but I reckon that while 80%+ say they won't pay and plan to rage quit, only a fraction of that actually will. In fact, I'd love to see some hard stats/polls etc to see how opinion before equates to server populations after.

*I plan to pay btw

Wow. This post.

[Lordender]

Lol why is it rage quitting when people refuse to pay for a beta? sounds like smart people to me.

[Gulkeeva]

I'll be waiting till a patch after P2PBeta to pay and see whats up, especially if they add some cool mounts, and to data mine

Then after that wait for 2.0 , gotta play with the 2.0 miqo'te for sure O_o

[kisada]

Wow. This post.

exactly what i was thinking, jesus christ

[Lordender]

The game might not even make it to 2.0 if people aren't trolling and really are not gonna P2P.

[shidobu]

im all for them shutting servers down. And instead of trying to stuff shitty content into a beta phase then going "OH GUYS ITS UH... GONNA BE EXTRA 2 WEEKS BEFORE NEXT UPDATE". Just say "hey guys come back in 5 months we will have 2.0 rocking come spring"
instead of them trying to juggle a current system and the new system work load all at the same time. I have plenty of other games to go play. Not like im gonna "forget" about 14.

imo the sooner you get 2.0 out and get the shit steam rolling the better. Get it out at spring when kids get out for school/summer break. "ooh shiny new ff14 2.0 to play" Give everybody that bought the original game free 30 days with a friend pass. Fucking profit when people go "this is what it should have been" and start paying monthly fees after the free pass is up"
The people that really want to play this game will come back. And probably drag people who didn't care with them too.

[blindSharingan]

The game might not even make it to 2.0 if people aren't trolling and really are not gonna P2P.

There is still a base of players that will pay and any money is better for SE than the 0 dollars they are making off the game right now. I find it unlikely that they'd invest so much into 2.0 and than not let it play out until at least that.

For me the charge isn't much money at all, I'm not paying for any other MMO's, and I'm interested enough in the upcoming changes and have a decent enough time with my friends that I'll fork over my money.

[Grey Jorildyn]

I won't make any assumptions about who will or will not be playing come billing time, but I will say this:

SE is already off the mark on their updates. Those flashy pdfs they sent out are already lying to us. If they do not get their shit together and start releasing patches on time, then the 2.0 project isn't gonna hit its mark either. That does not bode well for them whatsoever. If they keep that crap up, I find it hard to believe that they will maintain a large enough group of faithful players to word-of-mouth their relaunch to expected heights of success.

[blindSharingan]

They're planning to have a trailer and what not for E3 no? That's not really just a word of mouth relaunch.

[shidobu]

They're planning to have a trailer and what not for E3 no? That's not really just a word of mouth relaunch.

pretty cgi means nothing, i wanna see some in game fucking mechanics. If all they show at E3 is a pretty CGI animation ima be fairly fucking disappointed.
We bought into the hype once already and we all see how that turned out.

[Dantrag]

The game might not even make it to 2.0 if people aren't trolling and really are not gonna P2P.

I think they had plans on making it to 2.0 regardless so in their minds some money is better than no money.

[blindSharingan]

pretty cgi means nothing, i wanna see some in game fucking mechanics.

I definitely agree with you but my point is that they aren't just relying on a "word-of-mouth relaunch".

[Gokulo]

I think they actually said something about seeing how many people stay to pay to decide if enough are interested in the game or something.

[shidobu]

I think they actually said something about seeing how many people stay to pay to decide if enough are interested in the game or something.

lol meaning they will scrap the whole thing? cuz that will be lol worthy. And a huge hit to SE as a company...

[Gokulo]

I'm actually not sure, don't want to stir things up too much Might be I'm remembering wrong, and while they want to see how many people will pay, it won't affect anything.

[shidobu]

I'm actually not sure, don't want to stir things up too much Might be I'm remembering wrong, and while they want to see how many people will pay, it won't affect anything.

o well. im taking a break when tera online beta hits state side. Ill play Final Fantasy 14 Waiting Edition till then i guess