Nqftw Posted On The OF

Dont you know you can only play one and only have a valid opinion about one on these heavily baised forums about which one you can like?

People rant and rave about level skips and story skips yet would gladly pay up heavily for their additional $13/mo+ mule so they don't have to do it themselves.

Maybe not for RoZ because it's such a short experience however for; CoP, ToAU, WoTG and even SoA which some are heavily gated by "come back next vana'diel day" when the clock just rolled over to 01:32. There is a good 45 miunutes of your life gone if that is the only thing you can really focus on.

I myself used to look at level skips and story skips in 14's cash shop and thought "why would I myself ever purchase these" this was back when I was in college and my biggest responsibility was spending 2 hours after my 1 hour class to get my homework done. Now I'm putting in 10-12 hours a day, sometimes 6 days a week into a career while owning and managing a business I started as well that is flourishing and still going to school for my masters.

Now when I look at that I understand why it's there, it's for people like myself where we don't have the time and capacity to no life grind like we used to. However I'm also pushing high into the 6 figure salary which is vastly different from the slightly-above minimum wage hourly that I was back in those times, where I'd be lucky to even get scheduled 40 hours in a week. So the $25 that I'm dropping to purchase that, I make that in roughly 18 minutes of being at my job, I'd say that trade off of 18 minutes to save myself 30-40 hours+ is worth it.

why bother getting REMA or other status items.

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1 Billion = 10 Stikini Ring +1s, Neck +2 and Sup5 Weapon of your choice (such as Rostam)

A FFXI customer pays $12 a month and faces no punishment for unsubbing.

A FFXIV customer pays $12* a month, buys vast amounts of rubbish on the cash shop (every live letter is showing off cash shop pap), buys expansions every year and is punished if they unsub while they go on holiday by having their mog house deleted.

If half the FFXI players move to ffxiv they will make more money, they keep FFXI running because they don't want to outrage the fanbase.

Yoshichans endgame is still to try get us to move to his other game so he can empty our bank accounts with the korean f2p style cash shop game with a sub.

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Dunno where you get $12/mo from... Wardrobes, mules, dual boxing.... youre spending more than $12/mo if you play this game today. I have 1 mule, and i pay $18/mo between the 1 mule and wardrobes.

And most players playing FFXIV arent spending much in the cash shop. Whales are.

It's $12 a month for new player on ffxiv.

FFXIV is far more expensive to play, I know it is and so do you because you see armies of people in all those cash shop rubbish when you wander around.

Yes they do, because it allows bad players to have prestige show off gear and also because people are lazy. You see the new cash shop junk everywhere after patches.. On FFXIV the developers take advantage of this to make money, on FFXI other players take advantage of it via mercing. On FFXI everyone pays gil for leveling or JP, on FFXIV you get your credit card out.

MMO players are extremely easy to fleece, on ffixv they take it to a whole other level. They pump out new cash shop content regularly and have developers just doing that.

FFXIV is hands down the most predatory and expensive mmorpg that exists, and I've played korean f2p games. Nothing comes close to FFXIV at all, they sell outfits, mounts, dyes, emotes, weddings, level skips and if you stop paying the sub you lose access to all of it. At least on korean f2p mmorpgs you can play for free and always have access to your outfits and mounts, not so on 14.

On-top of that, if you stop paying your sub for a while they destroy things you obtained like housing too, that's the only game I've ever seen anything like that ever. Warfame killed your pets if you didn't login for a while and the outrage made them change it, and that's a free to play game..

All that’s going to happen as a result of this, is the prices of certain SU5 that were in the gutter will return to reasonable sell values as the risk is now present and no one can just throw something on the AH without a care at extremely low cost. There’s a few people that consistently drastically undercut on anything they make regardless of market state (and they craft whatever they want also, no regards to supply) that will now have to actually take on risk like the rest of us.

That also means that materials will become even more scarce than certain things are now as they’ll still want to make money even at razor thin margins.

Those of you that think crafters are EVER screwing you on price don’t have the means to craft to begin with and thus probably don’t understand the full costs and average returns. Costs on everything are extremely reasonable compared to their material costs and average HQ rate when you factor in the investment of a shield.

SE could probably double or triple the amount of revenue by selling mission skips, they know this but the spaghetti code does not allow it. WoTg alone is like 100 hours? of playtime (no speed/teleporting or fastcs/enternity), FK that sh|.

Correct. Those who disagree simply didn't take the time to level crafts and make shields, etc. So, they whine when they see an item for 100+ million or whatever when they have absolutely zero clue what it took for the crafter to even get to the point they were capable of making something with a less than 5% chance of making said thing.

All people see is the end result. Then, they look at the cost of the mats, add them up and think, "Uh, why is this item costing me 300% the cost of the mats to make it?? GREEDY CRAFTERZZZ!!!1!!1!!"

Most seem to forget many crafters leveled their craft to 110 years ago, BEFORE they made auto-double skillups to 70. It literally took forever to get to 110 unless you did it daily for hours and were somehow already loaded. Plus, just getting to Stage 3 shield was a terrible task, let alone the final stage....but they wouldn't know that. It's just easier to ignorantly assume crafters ONLY craft, they don't ever actually take the time to play the game as well. Meanwhile they spent their past years standing in Jeuno, whining in LS chat how the item(s) they want cost too much while begging other people to make an XP party.

Its not the consumer's fault that SE's design is trash.

I myself used to look at level skips and story skips in 14's cash shop and thought "why would I myself ever purchase these" this was back when I was in college and my biggest responsibility was spending 2 hours after my 1 hour class to get my homework done. Now I'm putting in 10-12 hours a day, sometimes 6 days a week into a career while owning and managing a business I started as well that is flourishing and still going to school for my masters

Its not the consumer's fault that SE's design is trash.

It kind of is... if you stop telling them "good job" with your money they'd have to do better. Impossible to get people to do it, but in theory that's what'd happen.

It kind of is... if you stop telling them "good job" with your money they'd have to do better. Impossible to get people to do it, but in theory that's what'd happen.

Stop blindly giving them rewards for bad behavior or there is no reason to correct said behavior.

Every time you pay you're saying "I like what you're doing, keep doing it" you don't get to clarify, it's a 1 or a 0.

Didn't you say you sell gil? So you likely have multiple accounts...how much are you giving them per month for your RMT army? And no, you cant offset it with "but I make more back than I give SE", because you're still "telling them 'good job' with your money"

lmao what the *** are you talking about

Right but (not defending RMT...but) he's not necessarily playing it for enjoyment or as a hobby such as most of us (though I do think somewhere deep down in his black soul Eiryl does enjoy it still somewhat). When you are using anything for profit, what terrible things you may or may not be doing to the game's "community" are irrelevant.

It kind of is... if you stop telling them "good job" with your money they'd have to do better. Impossible to get people to do it, but in theory that's what'd happen.

Stop blindly giving them rewards for bad behavior or there is no reason to correct said behavior.

Every time you pay you're saying "I like what you're doing, keep doing it" you don't get to clarify, it's a 1 or a 0.