With all the changes, do you think SE is trying to end us/this

[Alhanelem]

I do not believe that this billing fiasco was done on purpose but the poster I quoted made the bold statement that billing is "easy" and that it's a simple process of knowing how to use a credit or debit card.

What an unbelievably dumb statement to make.

There's nothing dumb about it. Billing is not as "easy" as you think it is. Especially in this case, there's contracts to hammer out, customer service to manage (or fail to manage). "Knowing how to use a credit or debit card" is up to a consumer. The business has a lot of backend stuff to deal with that the customer never even sees. Think a little harder about how things work before you go around calling people 'dumb.'

The fact is that SE is winding down XI.

That's not a fact a all, and in fact they're not winding it down but turning things up.. They're doing a lot to work within the constraints they have and I'm impressed with that. However, sooner or later, they're going to have to address some key problems such as the consoles with the restricted disk space in order to make new content more original.

They can't afford to "wind it down" until, at a bare minimum, XIV is taking in money. And it's still completely uncertain when or if that will happen.