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For those who have yet to experience Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, this is the time to do it now that a two-week trial period has been announced. During the trial subscription, players can play to the max level of 20 but will have certain game restrictions.
Start your 14-day free trial and join over 2 million adventurers worldwide who have already begun their journey throughout Eorzea.
Play for free up to level twenty and experience all the epic quests, battles, and classic FINAL FANTASY elements you know and love, like Moogles and Chocobos!
How to Get Started
Download and install the Free Trial software
Create a FINAL FANTASY XIV Free Trial account upon launching the software
Get started on the special free trial page on the Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn site.
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does it matter? every US server has tons of people, tons of content, the game is extremely active, and most of the people on my friends list from launch have come back.
Most memorable games: AoC(Tryanny PvP), RIFT, GW, GW2, Ragnarok Online, Aion, FFXI, FFXIV, Secret World, League of Legends (Silver II rank)
Free trial to counter ArcheAge Beta ?
l2p
FFXIV and Archeage are nothing alike and the timing of their free trial is going to have little bearing on people that are interested in Archeage.
If anything, SE has realized they'll get more potential players by offering a free trial rather than blockading their game behind a box price before you can even give it a real look.
Win at what? Square Enix isn't new to MMOs, they prefer a niche active player base and it seems with FFXIV just like FFXI they have that. They aren't attempting to 'win versus WoW' as much as they are attempting to recoup from likely the worst AAA MMO launch in the last decade...
Glad to see a trial though, better than nothing
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
The mmo scene is nothing but a competition.....so yeah, WoW is still winning, and being able to play for free up to 20 as long as you want has partly to do with it. As far as having a trial similar to XI, look at how well that game is doing....yeah....
Two entirely different fanbases. Lol.
Played-Everything
Playing-LoL
Wow you can play for a whole 3 hours and get to level 20 for no charge! That must be why they have millions of subs right?!?
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Played-Everything
Playing-LoL
the competition is who gets the most money. How does making players play for free up to level 20 make them money? It doesn't, therefore they are actually losing the competition in that regard. Usually games go F2P because they've come to the point where nobody wants to pay for the game, which means the game just outright sucks.
FF XIV ARR by just going to a free trial means they are actually doing quite well because they are making enough money to where they don't have to result to more desperate means. If you look all over the internet the only thing I hear about WoW are people finally getting tired of it and the slow but constant stream of people unsubscribing to it.
Sure it's been the most successful MMO for a long time, but it's getting to the point where it's age is catching up to it.
If anything the MMORPG that's winning now is XIV because it actually has an large active player base who up to this point are all subbers who pay a monthly fee.
Thanks for this.
Going to try this out tonight. I was skeptical about the UI, but now I get to try it at least and see for myself.
Wish me luck.
"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
Give it a rest.. Just play WoW. There is no need to troll this game.
"You are all going to poop yourselves." BillMurphy
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone."
That's the other thing. WoW is gonna kill itself with WoD (if they keep along with what is going on in beta), which may be good, but still bad for people who did like WoW at some point. I wish I could just play WoW but there's not point since nothing has been updated and Blizzard is too focused on WoD. Putting all their eggs in one basket. Anyway, not saying FFXIV is bad, just watch the wording and if they had an unlimited trial, it would be best for consumers at least.
"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
---------------------------
"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
Yea its like 10+ years old and still has subscription, so i guess its doing great
Do you know their numbers or just the fact that they still exist? If you do research, you'll see how dead that game honestly is and the fact that half the "subscriber-base" is just being ran by a single player (meaning multi-clients). Good for the business, not so much the players. Unlimited trials allow you to still do things with friends and such even if you do not feel like paying. Certain restrictions prevent the in-game currency spammers from abusing the system. Based on the restrictions listed by ARR, it seems to be good (in theory at least).
uh huh...ok *nods*
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Well according to the Quarter 2 numbers, looks like with still over 6.5 million active subscribers, WOW is still king of the hill and looks to be for years to come. Haters gonna hate I guess. Truth is, every new shiny MMO release is slated to be the new king, when the fact is they go free to play within 18 months and transition over to the micro-transaction model. WOW just has too much polish and a head start over anyone else and these days no one has the money to put in the development time to try and get something close to WOW. Truth.