Article: Why FFXIV:ARR can shake up F2P flimsy foundationsFollow

Dear people,

I launched a blog earlier today, A Genre Reborn (and other musings), at the friendly website FFXIVRealms, which contains a couple of posts already.

The 1-sentence description of the blog is:

When trolls attack, structured debates persevere. I don't do TL;DR.

So as you might gather, it's not for the light of heart. Viewer discretion advised, long posts in there!

First one is:

Welcome to this dark corner of the Internet!



And the second one, for which I'd really like your opinion / comments / likes / whatever, since it's my first FFXIV:ARR article -not forum post- ever, is...*drumroll*:

Why FFXIV:ARR can shake up F2P flimsy foundations



I will go to sleep in a precious few minutes, since once again, it's quite late around here, but I promise to see / read / digest etc your feedback tomorrow, i.e. in some hours.

Thanks very much if you actually read the article, despite all my warnings about its sheer size =)

Edited, Jul 1st 2013 8:46pm by Sovjohn

Duly noted.

In my defense:

a) It's late. This probably affects my sarcasm limits negatively.

b) See a).

But duly noted, I'll tone that down in the future!

Edit: I removed references to allergies and running away. This ought to help somewhat. And now, time to catch some zzz's.

Edited, Jul 1st 2013 8:48pm by Sovjohn

I like the part where people keep trying to debate an "issue" like F2P that's already been decided.

If the game goes F2P, it has failed. Next topic.

To the knee-jerking, the OP isn't suggesting F2P.

It's a misleading title, but the article is pretty rank and file "FFXIV is OK to Pay2Play". While the writing style may be light hearted and funny, you should have probably saved this blog entry to preface what you've prescribed--namely forthcoming pieces elaborating on the fact. I'm often long-winded and I don't mind reading, however when I came to the end of your entry I found myself thinking that this piece was short on substance and preaches to the relative choir here at ZAM. I do however applaud anyone's desire to release the hounds on their writing juices.

For those that didn't want to read it, or from the title believe that the author is trying to rekindle the F2P debate, here is the TL;DR (which this was, mostly due to fluffy writing): SE did the math, SE has a F2P game and know how to do it, F2P has a negative rap and is oft the harbinger of relative doom, stay tuned for the next episode.

Edited, Jul 1st 2013 11:45pm by Krycis

Thanks for the feedback. Now, admittedly my current article is an introductory one, as stated. It was actually written as an introduction, and a "pause" was paused quite deliberately at its end, for fear of it becoming a 3,000 words article which frankly nobody would bother with under normal circumstances.

The objective is to present both negative and positive parts of the game, not only pricing-models related but matters pertaining to consumer, business and marketing aspects surrounding it.

In the next few articles you will gain a better idea of the direction, I may or may not post about them in this particular thread or elsewhere, as a "mini compilation".

I don't think you should advertise about your blogs on a forum like this if they're only opinions about stuff since that's what these forums are for. If the blog had useful tools for ARR or translation of JP blogs or dat mining then it would be interesting to take a look at.

Edited, Jul 2nd 2013 7:39am by Solonuke

I will re-visit the subject once I have an array of content (relevant to each other, of course) which I may believe will hold merit.

The medium-term goal (until the game's launch, at least) is not to provide an opinion, but an analysis, useful to those who read it, and broken into different sub-posts /sub-articles for clarity (A 10,000 words analysis would fare better as a university assignment than an article, after all).

Until what I have in mind is more concrete, feel free to refrain from clicking anywhere, since the introductory content is not representative of the "future", if you will.

That is all =)