Final Fantasy XIV grants players a month of freedom and revamped markets

Why aimed to people that had the headstart? The deadline is october 25, meaning that even someone purchasing the game today would still get the extended 60 days.

OK, here's how it works:

FFXIV is that super-hot chick who is totally out of your league and a beautiful soul deep down, who for some reason asks you back to her place.

But when you get there, it turns out her idea of a good time is to beat the snot out of you and jam stuff up your rear. Now... for some folks, this is exactly what they've been looking for but couldn't find anywhere else, and she's the dominatrix of their dreams. Good for them. Others are uncomfortable with it, but put up with it because OMG no, seriously, she is that hot and a wonderful person when you get to know her. But if you aren't a masochist and don't want to have to grit your teeth and try not to cry when you're trying to get your rocks off, back away. Your colon will thank you.

Who knows... maybe one day in six or twelve months time she'll call you up to let you know the BDSM stuff was just a phase, and now she doesn't play like a bad PS3 port with dominance issues on how you spend your time. Until then, there are plenty of fish in the sea... who don't require you to come up with a safe-word.

Lol, I just uninstalled FFXIV last night. Not going to bother putting it back on. It's too broken to fix in 60 days anyhow. Targeting, grinding crafting, no AH, no global chat, just a sloppy sloppy game.

Back to leveling more alts for Cataclysm. Tera is my one ray of hope. If Tera flops I'm just going to give up on MMORPGs and go back to fraggen people on MW2.

I am one of the masochist transientmind is talking about.

I think that today's actions by Square-Enix were probably one of the most important for me. They extended my play time, saving me money to play their "unfinished" product. Then they tell me exactly what their priorities are when they plan to have them fixed by.

To be honest, I had little faith in SE to even accept any of the issues in their game, much less fix them. Some of the logic in their game is obviously poor development issues that SE did not want to invest time in to resolve and figure out for their rushed release. I still have little faith in the developers for FFXIV. I can feel their pain to a degree because I am a software developer and understand what unreasonable deadlines can do to a peice of software but to me, it makes more sense to leave an unuseable feature completely out of the software than to put in a broken and annoying feature that people cant use anyway.

I think they are still in denial about their market ward system, but I dont care too much about that so I can let it slide.

All in all I'm very happy today and pleased with how SE is handling this rough release. I enjoy many aspects of the game but I dont think I can last as a long time player when the game is inconvient. Seeing how they are trying to resolve the inconvience, I dont feel as bad investing time and money into this company/game.

Hey guys, heard our game's terrible! Have free month!

I was very disappointed by all that I've read of XIV. I was really rooting for the game to be superb. I've lost all interest in all of the MMOs I've been playing and have been playing FPS a lot as a late. I really needed a new world where it was so nice and so well made that I could just "live" in it. But alas, I guess it wasn't meant to be. I hope the PS3 version turns out stellar when it's released in March 2011. It certainly has plenty of time to improve.

I hope to God TERA is everything I've been waiting for.