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Final Fantasy 14's next big challenge: Making players feel like they're getting their monthly sub's worth—not just funding Square's flops while WoW stacks value (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

the hybrid route of “Yea you can play as long as you want, but as soon as you give us money you will be required to give us money forever to play” route is counter productive

100%.

There's a couple of games I would probably be playing and spending money on that follow that monetization method and the problem is that... I don't play one game endlessly.

If you cancel and go away, you've made returning to the game a pretty substantial hurdle, and for me at least, I'm just... not going to.

(Also FFXIV's utterly incomprehensible login system that requires six logins on five thousand different pages under nine names doesn't help since every time I try to come back I can't remember how to even log in to anything.)