Monthly subscription required to play?

[SuperDean]

so i have to buy the game and then do a subscription? isn't usually one or the other? or is this not both and i'm reading it wrong and instead i just have to play 20 dollars a month to play?

[Tempus animae]

If you buy the game, it gives you free time, so technically you just pay for the DLCs... And more game time.

But you should play for free first, to see if you like the game

[SuperDean]

Originally posted by Zeitseele:

If you buy the game, it gives you free time, so technically you just pay for the DLCs... And more game time.

But you should play for free first, to see if you like the game

so your saying yes you pay for the game and then pay to continue playing it, because i didn't ask what it was you payed for

[Tempus animae]

Originally posted by SuperDean:

Originally posted by Zeitseele:

If you buy the game, it gives you free time, so technically you just pay for the DLCs... And more game time.

But you should play for free first, to see if you like the game

so your saying yes you pay for the game and then pay to continue playing it, because i didn't ask what it was you payed for

In short, Yes

To get the full game, you need to buy a base version, or a bundle with it. A base Version will give you 30 Days of game time.

But you can just play the free trial first, hundrets of hours of contend.

Edit.: There are some events that give the game for free, but I dont know any atm

[Overeagerdragon]

It has the same structure as WoW does....

You BUY the base game then need gametime (through either a subscription or 1-time payment) to keep playing beyond the 30 days you get from the base package.

HOWEVER

if you start on a preferred server, once PER ACCOUNT, on the FIRST character that hits lvl 30 you get an additional 15 (or maybe 30; I forget) days of gametime and a lump sum in Gil (15K IIRC)
This is in addition to preferred servers having the "road to X" boost where X is current max lvl-10 for people to catch up on progress made on other servers for having an established community and/or economy

[Ravenbones]

Can someone directly answer this for me:
When the 30 days run out, am I still able to play the base game or do I HAVE to pay monthly in order to start up the game?

[Walkerk19]

Originally posted by Ravenbones:

Can someone directly answer this for me:
When the 30 days run out, am I still able to play the base game or do I HAVE to pay monthly in order to start up the game?

On free trial, there is no time limit

However if you bought the base game and apply the serial key to activate it. It no longer became free trial account and turned into regular account which will have free 30 days. Once time is up, you will need to pay monthly to play.

No, sorry you cant go back to free trial account once you upgraded it.

[Ravenbones]

Originally posted by Walkerk19:

Originally posted by Ravenbones:

Can someone directly answer this for me:
When the 30 days run out, am I still able to play the base game or do I HAVE to pay monthly in order to start up the game?

On free trial, there is no time limit

However if you bought the base game and apply the serial key to activate it. It no longer became free trial account and turned into regular account which will have free 30 days. Once time is up, you will need to pay monthly to play.

No, sorry you cant go back to free trial account once you upgraded it.

Okay so the answer is I HAVE to pay monthly to play, there is no starting it up and just playing without the subscription, got it.

[The Grimm Reefer]

Originally posted by Ravenbones:

Originally posted by Walkerk19:

On free trial, there is no time limit

However if you bought the base game and apply the serial key to activate it. It no longer became free trial account and turned into regular account which will have free 30 days. Once time is up, you will need to pay monthly to play.

No, sorry you cant go back to free trial account once you upgraded it.

Okay so the answer is I HAVE to pay monthly to play, there is no starting it up and just playing without the subscription, got it.

you can buy the game, not register the keys and use the free trial until the time comes you want to activate the keys, at which point you will receive 30 days in game time for free, after that you will have to pay a monthly subscription to continue playing.

[SuperDean]

Originally posted by Walkerk19:

Originally posted by Ravenbones:

Can someone directly answer this for me:
When the 30 days run out, am I still able to play the base game or do I HAVE to pay monthly in order to start up the game?

On free trial, there is no time limit

However if you bought the base game and apply the serial key to activate it. It no longer became free trial account and turned into regular account which will have free 30 days. Once time is up, you will need to pay monthly to play.

No, sorry you cant go back to free trial account once you upgraded it.

strange you'd think they do something like runescape and just make it so you cant go to member areas or use member items once your payment expires but you can still do free stuff

[Bigguss Dickuss]

you could always hop on Elder scrolls online. It's a buy the game and all the DLC then you have over 1000 hours of content from what i've seen in the game. Or you can buy the base game for real cheap and have probably 250 hours of content for an RPG game. The thing with buying just the base game is that you can also get ESO Plus Membership instead of buying all the DLC content.
If it wasn't already clear it sounds like upon purchasing this game; you receive 30 days of
FREE total play time and there is actually no free trial. Once the 30 day free membership is over you will be unable to play FF14.
Trial implies something like what World of Warcraft is doing. Where you buy the game and get a "Trail" to do all quests before level 20. After that you're significantly limited to dungeons and Battlegrounds
Elder Scrolls Online is going to give the most content as well as longest lasting content for the cheapest price. (One time purchase!)

[Walkerk19]

Originally posted by SuperDean:

strange you'd think they do something like runescape and just make it so you cant go to member areas or use member items once your payment expires but you can still do free stuff

How many other subscription based MMO do something like Runescape?

[Last Place]

if you don't have the 15 bucks for a normal sub or the 10 bucks a month for an entry level sub, you can always just play the trial forever.

This is kinda how most MMO's have been doing it for a few decades now.

[Oku]

Originally posted by Bigguss Dickuss:

you could always hop on Elder scrolls online. It's a buy the game and all the DLC then you have over 1000 hours of content from what i've seen in the game. Or you can buy the base game for real cheap and have probably 250 hours of content for an RPG game. The thing with buying just the base game is that you can also get ESO Plus Membership instead of buying all the DLC content.
If it wasn't already clear it sounds like upon purchasing this game; you receive 30 days of
FREE total play time and there is actually no free trial. Once the 30 day free membership is over you will be unable to play FF14.
Trial implies something like what World of Warcraft is doing. Where you buy the game and get a "Trail" to do all quests before level 20. After that you're significantly limited to dungeons and Battlegrounds
Elder Scrolls Online is going to give the most content as well as longest lasting content for the cheapest price. (One time purchase!)

I’ve gotten more hours of content out of FF14 than I have out of ESO since it was in beta while keeping my sub running continuously for three years and I’ve still spent less money than it would take to buy all the expansions and DLC packs for ESO. Pretty much all of ESO’s DLC packs involve a quest line that can be beaten in a single day, side quests which take half as long to beat all of them, one activity, and a daily grind. Pretty much everything pre-Summerset is dead content aside from the non-DLC pack overworld sections and PvP because of this.

ESO is fun but it really doesn’t offer the content value for the same money that FF14 does for most people, which is why most people either buy a couple DLC free m their favorite regions, or are subscribers and pay $15 for ESO+ to get access to everything, which makes it literally the exact same cost as FF14.

[Commanderm]

i keep hearing it buy to play now but the store page still says Subscribtion so witch is it, Monthly buggery or buy to play then new stuff is in Sub plus guilds ectra, plus i already but in the code and when Luancher asked me to thinking it buytoplay so already i am screwed.

[serker31]

Originally posted by Commanderm:

i keep hearing it buy to play now but the store page still says Subscribtion so witch is it, Monthly buggery or buy to play then new stuff is in Sub plus guilds ectra, plus i already but in the code and when Luancher asked me to thinking it buytoplay so already i am screwed.

You should go to Mog Station (google it) and log in with your SE account to activate your game codes and pay the subscription. Steam wallet payment is supported. Don't buy expansions on SE site though, only steam-bought expansions are compatible with steam-bought game.