And I thought Japan was supposed to be business smart?
Most are, Square are the exception I guess, it used to be that they made good games and the rest was meh. Now they make bad games and the rest is still meh. They are lucky the old reliable XI is still their biggest online cash cow, if they had to rely on anything they made recently they would be in really serious trouble. Oh wait they are anyway.

The horrible state the way this company treats it's players is one of the main reasons I will steer clear of FFXIV, I'm into XI so I have to put up with them. I won't make that mistake again.