also....the cost of a server doesn't rise.....you bought/financed all that hardware 10 years ago. Now....if you've recently replaced that hardware, that could be another story. But even then, that's still a one-shot investment that you work into your budget and it remains static and doesn't go up from that point on.

What has happened here is they have taken significant steps to REDUCE the expense of their operations in relation to FFXI, but have NOT reduced the cost to the consumer and pocketed the profits to pay for the extra effort to fix FFXIV. So, in essence....we are paying for services that (for a large number of subscribers not also playing FFXIV) are not being rendered.