The thing is, this isn't about money. Most asking for this think nothing of spending an extra $2 to have chocolate sprinkles on their coffee or a snickers bar from the vending machine. This isn't about saving $1.50 a week on a sub, it's just purely some kind of weird mental hangup linked to it being a subscription. It's kind of like someone buying extra value beans at the store and saving 50cents so they can feel good about "saving money" and then spending $120 on some new headphones because you thought the color was nicer than their old ones. None of the people arguing about this are poor, saving $6 a *month* isn't going to have any impact on your life at all.

To some, ffxi is a side game. They only marginally care about it, their main game is another so they can say things they know will have a catastrophic effect on the game with little worry, because they only play it now and then anyway and they will soon be flitting off back to 14. Many of these same people defend a $30 mount in the cash shop of their main game, above and beyond the main sub even....because it's their main game and they care more about it.

To others FFXI is their main game and there is no other game we can move to, because we think the rest of the market is full of garbage. To us, the people who make the content having their budget slashed means we will get even less content than we get now. We don't want less than we already get. The finance dept at Square Enix decide how much money this game gets, its not upto the developers they just make what they can with the money they have.

The benefit of getting content on a game we spend so much time on > the negligible benefit to our lives of having that extra $6 a month.

We get new missions, we get new ambuscade dungeons (a new one was added last month), new HTBF, new login items, we new endgame content, new gear or just new stuff in general. Even if you don't see or like these additions every month it's still things that are being worked on that take many months to complete that are being created in an on-going fashion. Even if you're annoyed at the amount of content you're getting it's still better than getting nothing at all if it's a game you are playing.

To be frank, we are getting way more than we should be getting given the skeleton crew the game has and in-fact more than most mmorpgs on the market get.