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I think it is a near certain bet that they will do it again in May this year, it brought more players back to the game (read: revenue for SE) than anything in over 10 years. There is no way they won't do it again.

Did it last though? Iirc they did it during free login, how many resubbed, and for how long?

Following this free log-in campaign, we're sitting at a 109k active count, which is really good for a post-campaign period. Like 2nd best, only to the Bonanza campaign, in over a decade iirc.

And the Bonanza population boost was months ago. Keep in mind, there were a number of reasons for this population growth, between a down-tick in FFXIV quality, the Raid series introducing people to FFXI, and the Limbus hype around the same time as the Bonanza giveaway.

I don't have any hard data or numbers. But one of their main tricks SE uses to get people to resub is when a returner realizes all of his gear is locked behind wardrobes during a "Free Play" campaign. Dangling a bonanza weapon that the user can play around with for a few weeks is fun up to a point, but its basically bait to convince them to unlock their wardrobes (invalidating their free login and resubbing in the process). So in the end, far more people resub to the game when they do freebies like bonanza weapons or whatever, even if just for a month, because they can't really enjoy the game like they used to without access to their locked gear. I think it has a huge effect on player numbers, even if temporary.

I'm even more certain they would redo the bonanza weapon freebie this time around, because they can advertise all the new content updates they've pushed out since last year, which is a lot.

Can confirm, I redownloaded the game for free login and ended up resubbing because it was impossible to play without wardrobes.

Doubt I will continue past this month because the new Limbus is, without a doubt, the most dogshit lazy content SE has put out in years.

I'll probably spend the rest of my sub organising my wardrobes so that I can play all my main jobs with just the free ones next free login.

As a show of good faith towards all the customers that have remained faithful, SE should just make all 8 Mog Wardrobes part of the normal game.

As a show of good faith SE should recode the way inventory loading works so I don't have to spend 30 minutes downloading my inventory when I zone.

Better yet, replace wardrobe 1 with job specific wardrobes.

22 storages worth of space, but the game only has to load ONE, for whatever job you're currently on. Stick your all jobs or shared gear in 2-8.

I'll do one better. Just change the order that inventories load in so you don't always load Safe 1 (inaccessible) before Wardrobe 1 in every zone.