| Zkuq said: Still waiting for the free trial to be expanded to players already owning the game. I think I bought the game mere months before the free trial was announced, and never even hit the level cap of the trial. I just don't have enough time to justify paying for the monthly free almost ever, so at this rate, so having bought the game only to hear I wouldn't actually have had to annoys me greatly. Now I'm worse off than not having paid for the game at all... And the thing is, if I ever hit the level cap in the free trial, I would probably have a much higher chance of paying for the subscription that I have now when I never play the game. In my case, this is probably a lose-lose situation. |
Yeah the free trial still has the unfortunate drawback that once you've paid for a sub, you lose access to the free trial content entirely. It's a pretty clunky setup sadly, especially when you look at another MMO like World of Warcraft where they also have a free starter period that all accounts revert to once your sub runs out. I suppose it's partly due to the fact that free trial players in FFXIV aren't able to join Free Companies among other restrictions, but honestly I don't see the point of barring free trial players from joining them anyway, they could just relax that restriction and just give everyone the benefit of the free trial if their sub runs out. Maybe sometime in the future they'll reconsider. Always possible to make a secondary account in the meantime if you never got very far.
