Question about letting a subscription run out on a subscription MMO

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Prime_Hunter_H01

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While I stay away from Subscription MMOs because I don't have the money or time to keep it active all the time and get my moneys worth out of it Final Fantasy 14 has been wearing down on me and it does not help that a current Gamestop sale has the base game for 11 dollars.

I have never done a subscription mmo before but I hear about people with patchy subscription habits that don't subscribe constantly. Can I get an explanation on how that works, specifically if anyone had subscribed and then taken a break from and come back to Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn.
 

shrekfan246

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Haven't done with Final Fantasy in particular, but in general a lapsed subscription just means you can't access the game until such a time as you pay again. From what I understand most of them tend to have systems in place so that you don't need to pay each month, either; You could pay for two months at once, or for half a year, an entire year, etc. Though I don't know if Final Fantasy offers such services, it generally saves a few dollars to go for a longer period of time than a month, depending on how continuously you expect to be playing.

My biggest suggestion would just be to not uninstall the game until you're well and truly sure that you're done with it. MMOs tend to take up a rather large amount of space, and whenever you resubscribe to the game you'd have to download it all over again if you uninstall it because your subscription ran out.
 

Tuesday Night Fever

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I can't speak for Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn (I have a subscription that's expired, but haven't resubbed), but I've let subscriptions end in the past with World of WarCraft and City of Heroes/City of Villains a few times each.

There's really nothing special about it. You go onto your account page through the company website, cancel your subscription, maybe fill out a quick survey as to why you're quitting and what the company could improve upon, and that's it. You're done.

If you choose to come back to the game you just log back in to your account on the company website, re-enter your credit or game time card info, wait a few minutes, and go right back to playing.
 

Comocat

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MMO subscriptions typically don't "run out". They are usually set to auto-renew in discrete chunks of time with longer chunks being the better value. Make sure you cancel your sub, otherwise it will auto renew. When you cancel you are allowed access until the renewal point.

There is nothing more complicated that what the other posters have mentioned. You either sub and have access to the game or you dont.