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That I can understand. I have a friend who has a huge family and they all have to work, and to pay for Tera, he did that buy playtime token with in game funds, that someone else paid for. Which is how I found out it existed to begin with. Which is why the only free to play model I (opinion) would be somewhat OK with is that. It's not perfect, and those who chose not to buy tokens for other people will suffer. Catering to people who can't afford stuff, that's an interesting market.

That being said, the F2P has nothing to do with people's financial struggles. It's about exploiting people's spending habits. I don't believe for a second they are in business to let people enjoy their work for free, because they're going through hard times. No one is judging the the people, sir. A person who's frugal wont spend money on anything anyway. A person who's financially burdened is tempted to spend money they shouldn't be spending. Very sinister indeed.

P.S.
That friend got a better job 3 months ago, so he just finished building his PC for FFXIV because he's excited for it.



Exactly, which is why he *the friend* quit playing FFXIV. The game wan't worth his money just yet, but apparently ARR does. So it's a good thing he sought better means to fund his entertainment.



You claim to champion the frugal, the poor, but in the end, it's always been your lack of interest in the FFXIV ARR product. I don't think you should spend your money on it either. It's not for you, just accept it and move on. I don't think it should be free so you can torture yourself with something that doesn't satisfy you. Seek pleasure elsewhere. It's for your own 'happyness.'



Edited, Apr 1st 2013 8:14pm by GDLYL

The forum finally gets a catfight brewing and we don't even get to see bewbz. I'm just saying, they've been shown for less.

I once asked about getting the lower case c changed to a proper upper case C, and I was told at the time it could not be done. Maybe that has changed and some kind mod will take pity one me, perhaps when I ding 16K posts?

There will be no bewbz. Sorry.

Where's Usagi when you need him?

F2P was never about being poor, it was about having the choice. Hell some of the players under free to play pay vastly more than anyone does in a p2p game, some pay nothing but again it's the choice.

I spend more on my current MMO under f2p than I did when it was p2p and have no issues doing so, playing an mmo is already dirt cheap entertainment.

However it's really nice to know that if you lose your job or some big bill comes you can skip a month or two and still have your entertainment there for you. Pay to play, you are no longer a customer and no longer have access to your account if you don't put that sub up.

Also I have to say that given that FFXIV ARR doesn't want to innovate on anything and is just going to be a basic wow clone it's not good for it that Bless MMO looks more like a FF game than it does now, the graphics and ingame events will be bigger and better too given that it's going to be pc exclusive. PS2 held back the development team in what they could and couldn't add (because they will never make exclusive content) and ps3 limitations will be the same for this game.



Look at this race image, which shows just how close it is to XIV.
http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/536490_444990875538112_39366302_n.jpg

Bless to me looks like a ripoff of FFXIV done right, even the races are almost identical lol Bless however looks exciting to play to me.



Edited, Apr 2nd 2013 4:01am by preludes

Whoa. I guess they are lucky race design does not fall under copyright infringements. That`s incredible.

Darqflame is the mistress of all things name related. You can try emailing her at darqflame@zam.com and see what she says, not sure why they would tell you that it was unavailable, unless for some reason there is a Catwho registered already...

My name used to be geffe and Darqflame was able to change it to Geffe. Send her an email like Wint said.

The most expensive of subs to an MMO are 50 cents a day or less. If you can't make that, it's a wonder you can afford a rig, internet access or even electricity for an F2P.

Might I recommend some other top-quality games to you such as Super Mole Kart, Minecroft, and Assassin's Credence? They're all such vibrant and interesting games; I don't know how the respective companies come up with so many good ideas -- and so quickly, at that!

And, in the case of Bless, nothing spells quality like Korean game company NEOWIZ GAMES, right?

In a roundhouse-kick mood again, are we? The SE style after the 16-bit era may not have appealed to you, but many disagree.
Though arguably lacking titles to rival Crono Cross or SoM, most of their titles still were well above average.

This is where you try to counter my argument by making my argument, Square was never "Above Avarage" it was as close to perfection as it could possibly be, the argument that they now are atleast not as horrible as let's for example say "Neverland/Capcom or Konami" is as insulting as my comment :)

As for characters, in their main series ? Sure, on MMO'S ? Yeah Elvan are not elves... Humes are not humans... Gelka are not some humanoid over large race that we had never seen up to XI.... Right!