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Oh! Thank which ever god got him to Resign!! The Squaresoft killer has finally given Up!

Now whoever becomes CEO, needs to release FF Type 0, tell toriyama to pack his backs and GTFO! Oh and gives us a damm update on Versis jesus is been like a decade <.<

It is not up to him. It's not whether he "falls" for the pressure. If his employers demand certain things of him, he will have no choice but to comply. I guess this is why some people are worried.

This also goes for my remarks about the possibility of a free-to-play model. Yoshi-P saying it will be pay-to-play really doesn't mean that much, especially with a new president and CEO coming in.

Edited, Mar 26th 2013 12:46pm by Killua125

Why do people keep saying that ARR is gonna be F2P or its best to go that way? We are freekin talking for a game that hasn't come out yet!!! Plus the actual dev of the game said that its not gonna be F2P. And the best come up to that is to say "thats what (s)he said" ?

If people that keep yapping that its best to go F2P are actually right ill be the first to say "damn you were right and i was wrong shame on me". But until then you got nothing and the rest of us got the fact that SE itself told us it will be P2P.

Well Yoshi said it will be P2P but he didn't say it will be forever but the fact remains that it will be P2P when it launches. Only if it fails in getting enough subscriber it will go F2P and i bet my money on it.

And either the companies are stupid or it is actually more profitable to start P2P . Of course that requires subscribers and when there arent many they turn to F2P.

Edited, Mar 26th 2013 1:07pm by Teravibe

Ok lets look at the facts shall we?

a) We got the lead dev of the game saying that it will be P2P . He obviously learned it from SE itself.

b) The game is in beta that means its nearly done. Do you actually think that SE will say at this time i want it to go F2P. I will stop the beta re design parts of it to be able to go F2P and by doing that slowing the release date?

Last time i checked SE wanted to release the game as soon as possible not slow it down even more.

If a company makes a fool out of its lead dev that wont be good for their image. They will lose even greater number of fans/players however you wonna call them.

Its delusional to even think at this moment that it will go F2P from the start.

As we take a look at the facts that i gave we can clearly see that no man in its right mind will decide to go F2P now.

Somehow i believe that no matter how many times i say it, someone will still tell me something along the lines of "yea.....but it might", so ill say this once more, yea it might but only if the P2P fails to attract enough subscribers.

Edited, Mar 26th 2013 1:26pm by Teravibe

You guys are forgetting Yoshi isn't just a producer, he's been promoted to Corporate Executive. He has a little more pull than I think you think he has.

TOR went F2P because they had investors to satisfy, FFXIV has no such requirement.

This, for chrissakes, this



When did SE stop being a publicly traded company?

Edited, Mar 26th 2013 11:30am by Olorinus

Because it keeps the 13 year old script kiddies OUT OF THE GAME.

Not the only reason but you are so right!

I love Angry Joe and he was a deciding factor in me picking up GW2 but he is by no means a true MMO player. He is a complete Casual, as made obvious by some of his other videos. He plays multiple ones for a couple months and then drops them. He also comes from the XBox generation so his tastes are quite different than most of us MMO players. Yes GW2 might appeal to a larger audience being F2P but it still doesn't make it any less boring to play for me. It's sad but I've actually heard people get surprised when they got close to max level and realized there was no end game content.

With P2P today you get constant content updates, I mean hell, look at 1.0 and the amount of crap they released in about a year's time. If they weren't focused on fixing a broken game just think of what they could have produced in patches. GW2 has had one big patch since I bought it around 4 months ago and all they did was fix arbitrary crap, balance stuff, and add more useless crap to the gem shop. Paying a subscription fee allows companies to provide more content and new stuff a lot faster than the F2P model, if they even add anything at all. I mean look at WoW. It got to the point that every 2 weeks to a month they were adding new stuff, with major new content being thrown in every couple months. SE will have to do this to make that subscription worth paying and I'm pretty sure they know that. If F2P is the road companies take to pay back shareholders, I don't see much surplus remaining there to put toward a constant flow of content.

That kind of gets me back to the Casual player vs Serious player mentality. A casual player won't have an issue with a F2P model that doesn't add new content more than once or twice a year, while a more serious player will need that content to keep their interest in the game. Those casual players will hop onto the next big thing and leave the game with even less of a source of income.

So working in the industry since 1993 and working on games like Dragonquest are 0 merits? Whatever man.

Also you know that SE's development of XIV is nothing like Bioware and EA's arrangement on SWOTR.

- And are notoriously terrible at public relations.

I don't throw Yoshida's name into the hat for his gaming background. I throw it in for his business policy. The open ended, earnest and active approach that FFXIV is having is his direct influence. Had anyone else in Square Enix taken over the project I severely doubt that we would have as open a window in FFXIV as we do now.

Corporate management is something you gain from experience, you deny someone the opportunity to be at the helm and you deny that experience.

That said, it's Yoshida's policies I want adapted into the Presidential position, not necessarily Yoshida. SE needs to open up, and get a closer relationship with their fans.