Ben-DutkaIt probably won't come as a big surprise to anyone, but it appears you won't be playing Final Fantasy XIV Online for free.
When the game was first unveiled at E3 earlier this year, there was some speculation as to the style and intent; was it only playable online (i.e., an MMORPG) and if it did qualify as a MMO, would we have to pay the now-standard monthly fee? Well, we've known for a while now that FFXIV is categorized as a MMORPG, and according to producer Hiromichi Tanaka, there will indeed be a subscription fee. "It's going to be a 30 days-based subscription," Tanaka told VG247 at GamesCom last week. Now, most of you know the game will likely end up on Xbox Live at some point, but SCEA president Jack Tretton has confirmed FFXIV will at least be a timed exclusive for the PS3. Tanaka added that "talks with Microsoft are held up for the game because of the policy of Xbox Live." So the update is fairly straightforward: we'll have to pay our monthly fees as we do with all MMOs, and although Xbox 360 owners will see it at some point, PS3 owners will be the first to get a crack at it.
We'll let you know if they can nail down a release date; it might happen at the Tokyo Game Show. As is, it's expected to launch some time next year…possibly close to Final Fantasy XIII in North America.
Related Game(s): Final Fantasy XIV Online
Star Wars: The Old Republic isn't going to be free. They've already announced that pricing is still to be determined. Most likely it will be $14.99 just like most of the others.
The 360 can have this game …still I think the best way to play it must be on Pc.
so…. it seems like psxextreme people are not interested in ff14 due to the fees. i wonder how well it will do.
why cant we have the option to either pay a monthly fee, or pay a larger sum upfront and not have to worry about it. basically a one time payment for life.
i would love to pay $100-200 dollar upfront and never worry about xboxlive gold membership.
How bout' just an offline single player mode? Don't expect another single player offline FF until at least 2020 everyone. SE can shove it. Me don't like online =/
100-200 bucks upfront, i dont think so. I know im one of the guys who wouldnt want to blow that much money on one game upfront. Its worse than the monthly fee, plus theres probably going to be another one in 2 years.
yea so u can pay monthly fees while i pay a one time fee for life.
I will gladly pay anything under 10 dollars.
The fees for XI were more then that I think. Plus more fees for any additional characters you wished to purchase. No?
Oh I'm sure my wishes will not be granted. With the lineup coming to the PS3 I highly doubt I will find the time to play this game unless it's fees fall into what I deem sufficient.
Not getting this at all. Square is heading down a path that is not good. Buying a game and then have to pay to play it? the hell, so not up for this ish. Maybe they should cut back on the graphics and focus on making a game for once.
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I'm glad I don't like those crappy games.
What did you people expect? FFXI had subscription fees, why wouldn't FFXIV? We all knew it would be coming to 360 since E3.
Come on people. Your all putting to much faith in SE. We should all know better by now about there business practices.
Sad but true. 🙁
I loved FF12, I've lost ZERO faith in SE.
I enjoyed XII a lot too. But not as much as X, and X not as much as IX and so on. I feel like they're games are getting progressivly worse. Not in terms of production values or anything but more in the presentation. The voice acting especially is getting bad. Some of the worst voice acting is in Dissidia. Much of the characters sound like monotone droids. Especially Cloud. Hopefully XIII will be different.
yea but… we were only 'wishing' and hoping for the better with our fingers crossed.
SE got sued before for unfair business practices from ff11, i hope they learned their mistake on ff14. im still considering playing ff14. at least for 1 month and probably sell back to gamestop.
Dissidia doesn't count, the voices got better from 10-12 though. So XIII will be even better.
Yea but who knows, that could have just been a case of buyers remorse or the girl failing to read the fine print.
I'm not sure about FF progressively getting worse, i put 7,8,9 & 10 in an almighty class of there own for me the only two games that compete with FF at its best are Silent Hill 2 & MGS2. i Gave up trying to decide a ranking of 7-10 years ago there all just so superb in there own merit.
I personally was dissapointed with 12, I wont go into detail on that but lets just say if FF13 is as dissapointing i shall be heart broken, but from what i've seen so far it looks extrodianry so i dont want to doubt it.
As for FFXIV, the reason i refused to get FFXI was because of the monthly fee, I just find that plausible when so many other online games are free, Though to be honest from the gameplay i've seen so far it looks very weak incomparison to FFXIII, so im not particually bothered.
I don't know. I hope your right World, the voices used in Dissidia are much of the same voices from the Kingdom Hearts games. The choices for the FFVII characters are especially terrible.
Ultima, each installment has failed to impress as much as the previous for me.
They should give away a free months subscribtion at least to encourage people to buy. Just make sure they give full discloser about what they are buying so there's no crying later.
They did with XI. I still haven't used mine (I wanted the HDD more than the game).
All MMORPGs give away a free month since it's included in the purchase price of the game.
I'll consider it if it's under 10, like Vertigo said, but the fact (it was speculation before) that it is going to 360 tells me that the game itself cannot be very good. If the world in which we function in a payed MMO can function from a bloody DVD then I don't know if I want in that world. Why not sell the game for a dollar and then charge the fee? 60 Bones plus more every month? Man. They could have gotten by with selling special armor/weapons/items/extra gil and stuff in-game. I mean for gods sake people actually purchase things in Home so they would for something with action in it!
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Fees? I don't mind as long as they accept PayPal. But considering the games are coming out, how can I find the time to play this game? An MMORPG at that.
I miss SquareSOFT. When did there moral compass lead them the wrong way?
Wasn't aware it had.
I didn't think that SquareSOFT went bad, but lately I feel like Square"enix" has been more concerned about $$ than loyalty to the game. I still have high expectations for FFXIII, but I can't help but wonder what it would look like if they went full throttle with the PS3's capabilities.
If you weren't aware of that Vertigo you haven't been paying attention.
Please explain World. I'm being serious. I've seen zero reduced quality in regards to SE games concerning the FF brand. Putting FF13 on the 360 makes perfect business sense. People forget that before Sony FF was a Nintendo product. I understand that the PS3 is the superior product.
I suggest people find fault with Sony for causing a scenario where their console would have to come back from last place thus giving SE a reason to expand it's market beyond the Sony brand.
Limited, don't…*sigh*…nevermind.
BTW happy late Birthday James 😉
Wasn't talking about the 360 fiasco, their games have gone down hill since Squaresoft became Square Enix.
In regards to FF games I disagree but since there have only been a couple it's hard to really make a valid opinion. I can understand your opinion in regards to SE as a whole. There have been a few WTF moments over the last few years.
Much appreciated, Vertigo
I think Limited has a point. There has only been 2 FF games since they merged. While XII wasn't my favorite by no means was it bad. Well have to wait and see how XIII turns out. Most of my frustration with Square has been their loyalty to M$ over Sony this gen and the fact that they didn't go balls out on XIII with the PS3. Well see though…
If it's only playable online, why don't they just give the game away for free and just charge for subscriptions?
Like WOW?
Final Fantasy four-wha???
Demon's Soul where are thee?
bravo square enix you've officially lost my attention. Final Fantasy was just a tiny part of why i bought a ps3 anyway so i'm not too upset.
Much like everyone else tis another pass. I'm not surprised but that doesn't make it right people. I'm also glad it didn't look that fun otherwise I'd actually be annoyed.
Though I'm starting to think I should play some of the older FF's. Played tactics as much as everybody else it hooked and loved the battle system and presentation of 12 but hated most of the characters and the story could have been better, omg it's my identical twin…. really? are you sure you wanna go there?
But ya never played any of the others. I was sincerely thinking of getting VII since it's rerelease, til I what I hear is the only major twist got spoiled for me.
I thought crossed my mind. Didn't FF XI allow PC, PS2, and 360 users to play on the same server. Just imagine if FF XIV will allow PC, PS3, and 360 users to play on the same server as well. The end result would be complete chaos. Nothing would get done other than the unavoidable flame wars between both PS3 and 360 users. That is one of many reasons I can't stand fanboys on either side. I just hope they create seperate servers for each platform.
I want at least one System vs System server… it would be awesome
Noooooooooo
to both points 🙁
For some reason, I feel more anticipated for Demon's Souls and White Knight Chronicles.
Definitely would've played now definitely won't. They should have gone with the Cash Shop system. Theres Demon's Souls WKC FF13 Dragon Age Origins FallOut3 DLC GOW3 & the next Oblivion on the way why do I wanna be stuck paying extra every month for the same mmorpg that if I don't grind every day I'll be wasting money & will get boring & too slow leveling after level 100.Plus knowing you're gonna do all that work leveling characters you won't be able to play the minute you stop paying it's just not worth it. There's too many other good looking RPGs available soon for this to work.
I don't know, but I could have sworn that
SquarEnix said that FF XI would be the only one
that would have a monthly subscription. I didn't buy that one due to the reasons that, first, I was on dial-up at the time. And second, I couldn't afford the monthly fee. Now there are 2 Final Fantasy's that I apparently won't have for my collection. A pitty, I would have loved to have the set. Oh well. But, if they do go on with this idea, then tehy will prove the Enix is a bunch or L7's.