Beta Forums Legacy VS Non LegacyFollow

I mean, I know why people are sour, but it still doesn't make much sense to me. It also doesn't make sense when legacy players act like they funded a kickstarter and that you should lick their boots. Drama over it is overrated.

Part of me wants to point out that we should take this conversation down a notch so we don't get to the official forums point, and part of me just really really loves this line. lol


There are not different factions, and really the only benefit is if you want a different race. Theoretically there are different grand companies, but through the main storyline you see them all, and then choose one, you're not really getting a different experience. I understand the idea of comparing equal options, but I just really don't see the need for 8 characters besides messing around, so I consider the basic option, I understand both ways though.

As far as economies, I'm not too worried about that either, even if you were a new player joining an existing server, it just means there's an existing economy like you said. I joined FFXI and there was already a JP player base, I joined WoW on an existing server, I joined Aion and SWToR and others from the start. Nothing in my life changed in any of those situations.

I don't see the price as a bonus.

Look at it this way: earning Legacy was like making a down payment.

$12.99 for six months is $77.94. Divided by the $3 difference in pricing, that's about 25 months before I'm actually getting any sort of discount.

Meanwhile I have fewer servers from which I may choose, 1/10 of the Gil I owned and a year worth of materia crafting essentially destroyed.

But I'm not complaining. I look at the silver lining that SE took the time to reinvent a broken game and allowed me to retain some piece of my efforts over two years.

The nonsense on Lodestone is just trolling. The General Discussion is an embarrassment, plain and simple.

This.

I have yet to see one of these threads started by a Legacy player. It's always some non-Legacy player who is complaining that people who didn't follow Square Enix's previous instructions -- or who weren't around at the time -- should be entitled to the same discount.

That's like me not buying any other game when it's on sale, and then complaining that I should be able to get the sale price months after whilst complaining about people who bought at the discounted rate.

Hyrist said it best; most Legacy players don't really care that we're Legacy. That doesn't mean I'm giving up my discount. But man, we all had notice. It's over. Heck, I started a second account to get Legacy status, just so my wife could play at the discounted rate with ARR. It's a choice I made, to pay double the fees for a substandard game. Others didn't make that choice. Who knows, maybe ARR will flop, and I'll be the one looking like I made the bad decision? Will all the Legacy haters still be complaining then?

Time for Legacy haters to get over themselves and move on.

EDIT: I must admit, though, in some of those beta forum threads that have gotten way out of control, I've had a bit of fun throwing some fuel on the fire. One of my favorite things to do is mention how I can buy a mocha each month with the money saved by my Legacy rate... and that I'll call that my monthly Legacy Mocha.

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 8:56am by Thayos

It's all about the money, really. If you gave non-Legacy players the lifetime discount rate, they wouldn't complain anymore.

That said, SE shouldn't do that. The vocal minority of people who keep stirring the pot on this just need to grow up.

A little bit of trolling is good for the soul!

sounds delicious

As legacy, I couldn't care less what SE does at this point. I just want people playing the damn game. Offer up another limited sign up for a lifetime discount, call it whatever you want. If it's incentive to attract even more people, I'm all for it.

Hell, I'm still deciding on what to do, keeping my legacy char or re-rolling a whole new one.

I would understand the issue if regular players were being charged extra or something. $13/mo is less than the normal MMO sub isn't it? Why are people upset that someone else may be paying $10/mo? It doesn't affect you. If they were saying legacy players can pay the regular price and non legacy have to pay $2-$3/mo extra I could understand the complaints.

But this is like getting mad that you go and buy groceries at regular prices and getting mad at the lady using coupons to pay a little less.

The vast majority of people out there do not care.

People who would kick Legacy or non-Legacy people from their parties are the kind of idiots that most of us don't want to associate with, anyway.

Turns out that while we kept our actual levels, it seems we've been reset to Level 1 as far as the guilds are concerned. Level 42 THM running around with a single spell is just... sad.

Check your actions tab, you have the full spell allotment aside from the two quested spells and whatever Black Mage spells you did not quest.




Nothing spectacular. Rather than arrive on a cart/ship, you port into an undisclosed location and are met with slightly different introduction text, and you hoof it to your key nation of choice.

NPCs don't recognize you, only note with bewilderment that you seem oddly familiar. That goes as far as level 10 quests, which is as far as I got before I had to go to work. If there's any 'revelation' that you're a Warrior of Light, it's not identified at that point.

Edited, Jun 21st 2013 2:12pm by Hyrist