PC Version in September. PS3 Delayed. Pre-order + Pricing Info

[Durahansolo]

Re: PC Version in September. PS3 Delayed. Pre-order + Pricing Info

Thread tags = win.

[Murphie]

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I hope they come out with a fixed monthly rate in US currency other wise every month is going to be different amount....and with as much as the US dollar has gone up and down that could get real exspensive....especially with it costing at least $15~ a month now plus the $3.50~ per extra char thats going to add up fast.

lol, wut?

This article is from Eurogamer, so the prices are quoted in euros. It's not like they're going to stick to that particular price and make us pay based on the given value for the dollar at that time. Everyone will have a set price.

[Kafeen]

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I hope they come out with a fixed monthly rate in US currency other wise every month is going to be different amount....and with as much as the US dollar has gone up and down that could get real exspensive....especially with it costing at least $15~ a month now plus the $3.50~ per extra char thats going to add up fast.

The price for the US is available on FINAL FANTASY XIV

$12.99 for 30 days
$3.00 for each additional character
$1.00 for each additional retainer

[Grizzlebeard]

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Actually the age of "JPOnry" has more or less died, there's still some who won't party with NAs, but the universal idea that "they're better then us" has more or less been thrown to the wayside

There you go again with your blanket statements. The, "JP Only" search comments on Fenrir, for example, still average around 50% whenever I check. If anything, they've risen with the increased demand for levelling parties. That's probably due to a bunch of non-JP players camping on top of their parties, stealing their mobs, and generally acting like self-obsessed douchebags though.

[Etra]

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I guess some people play this game to have as many characters as they possibly can at all times? Pretty stupid, bro.

Sorry for wanting to relive the progression starting from scratch sometimes, without having to pay $3 extra a month and not deleting my main?

Bro.

[Laynton]

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The price for the US is available on FINAL FANTASY XIV

$12.99 for 30 days
$3.00 for each additional character
$1.00 for each additional retainer

THANK YOU!!!

lol, wut?

This article is from Eurogamer, so the prices are quoted in euros. It's not like they're going to stick to that particular price and make us pay based on the given value for the dollar at that time. Everyone will have a set price.

My work blocks ALL game site, only this site and BG are the only two exceptions Ive found, so I could not go check for myself thats why I asked.

[Ziero]

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There you go again with your blanket statements. The, "JP Only" search comments on Fenrir, for example, still average around 50% whenever I check. If anything, they've risen with the increased demand for levelling parties. That's probably due to a bunch of non-JP players camping on top of their parties, stealing their mobs, and generally acting like self-obsessed douchebags though.

Then your server must really really suck.

[Mhurron]

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JP Only and NA players sucking the proverbial JP dick is very much alive and well. Neither is a phenomenon strictly related to FFXI.

[Kafeen]

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JP only comments are usually due to communication ability rather than elitism. FFXI has been out long enough for for players in all regions to be of a similar skill level.

Does anyone else find the choice of pre-order bonuses a little strange?
Collectors edition = Quickens recovery from KO.
Standard Edition = Increase speed of skill progression.

Hopefully the KO recovery won't be needed to much but faster skill progression sounds like an awesome ability to have.

[Ziero]

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It also seems like the standard edition doesn't have a 30 day free trial. Personally, I'd rather have the goggles then the helmet (for looks more then anything) but the CE does offer a much better value right off the bat. It basically boils down to 60 days (no more being billed by month) for 75 bucks or 30 days for 50, not even including all the other CE items that come with it. Though I don't know what I'd do with a second security token, I was just going to use the one I have for XIV.

........of course getting this stuff all depends on whether or not I can get my PC to even run the game in a decent manner. Which according to the benchmark, I can't.

[TheGrandMom]

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A lot of that figure is highly inflated. Think about it ... if the operation is illegal, do you think they keep an actual record of all that they do? If they get raided by the police (it's still a very real possibility in communist china ... they can get taken down for circumventing state run firewall, for example and the fact that foreigners seem to be in collaboration with these people will make them even more suspicious) they need to make sure they don't have any records of anything they've done.

That being said, no one is stupid to be using the same account and trawling a lot with it. You have to use it, make your buck, dump it. Move on to the next. This is how you should do it and how the pros have done it for a while. Only amateurs would keep a main account and store their entire sum in it. Ask any underworld criminals (i.e., Mafia) and they'll tell you the same thing. It's basically money laundering in digital form.

Also remember this was all at the height of their operations. When SE cracked down on them, there were a lot of revenue lost (billions of gils), as well as the small timers being impacted a lot more than bigger companies (IGE for one managed to survive) This was also back before people were sloppy about personal security and back before they had things like an authenticator. With better security, smarter players and a better game design, these guys will have a more difficult time running their operations and thus will commit even more heinous and illegal activities in order to turn a profit. The expense of the account only serves to add an additional hindrance for these guys.

I'd be happy to go indepth with this topic as I've had numerous run-ins with these guys and have managed to help Blizzard with a ring of them in one instance where a rash of account thefts occurred on the server I was on. I had several friends that got their account taken from them and it isn't hard to do. One good example of this: If any of you had registered with Ars Technica at anytime around 2 to 8 years ago, if you're still using that email for other things, you might have been compromised. Their old datacenter contractor got compromised and 50,000 (or possibly even more, no one knows) emails were stolen as well as password information and personal information. This happens a lot (look at AT&T/Apple and their bungle with the iPad recently)

You're going off on a tangent. The comment I made was that charging slightly higher fees isn't going to stop gil sellers, its just common sense. If there is money to be made, they'll be doing it. Unless SE makes some other major changes, they'll be back even if they have to pay a dollar or two more per account. They made a killing with FFXI and there is no getting around that, if they weren't making money then they certainly wouldn't have been an issue for SE to deal with. And, regardless, this is just speculation since the game isn't even released yet. Maybe SE will have found the holy grail to have stopped gil sellers in their tracks.....one can dream....

[jenova_9]

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with more ways to make gil and being able to solo better, I think there will be less reason for people to hire gil sellers.

[TheGrandMom]

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Many people are inherently lazy. If they can find an easier way of doing/obtaining something they'll take it. I just can't see SE making the game so easy that a gil seller would be a redundancy.

[WishMaster3K]

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I'm so impartial to the tone half of this thread has taken because I dumped so much money into my PC rig. Those are the hands we're dealt, folks. For whatever reason, the game isn't being launched on the PS3 and PC at the same time.

We can speculate, but no one really knows.

The benefit? Well I KNOW I'm getting the game, but since much of my friends are still playing FFXI and other games, they can look at me playing and determine if they really want it.

Also, give the wiki time to get populated, for fucks sake. Being first is awesome and all, but I'd rather be in the second wave where people know what's to be expected after watching the first wave trailblaze.

Besides; no one cares about who was the First to do shit on the intarwebs. That's why people who post "First" are so gad damned annoying.

I'm sure whoever got to level 80 the quickest felt really super about themselves after that proceeded to sleep for 14 hours and/or tell their mom that they're sorry for not taking out the trash.

[Feba]

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I'm so impartial to the tone half of this thread has taken because I dumped so much money into my PC rig.

Except that it could just as easily have been the other way around. If SE had delayed the PC release by over half a year, you wouldn't be so happy.