(06-09-2015, 02:37 PM)Naunet Wrote: Are you seriously trying to suggest that the way an MMO handles an expansion is the reason behind it going F2P? Most that I've witnessed made the transition to F2P well before any expansion. The P2P/F2P debate doesn't really belong in this discussion.
Also the argument that a player should just pack up and go to another game because X game does something a player doesn't like doesn't really fly with me. There are a million reasons to like or dislike a game. You do not have to accept the whole package to want to play the game, and it's perfectly reasonable to point out observed flaws in that package.
People in this thread are arguing that dark chocolate should be sweeter, while there is a shelf full of milk chocolate right next to them. People are criticizing the very things that makes FFXIV successful. It's not just the expansion part. People are annoyed they have to work their way up to new content, instead of just paying money and having it be made available to them. Aka, they want it to be like a F2P game.
It boggles my mind.