Pay $12
That pooled $12 (remember, your MASSIVE $12 can't pay for the developers coffee for 1 singular morning alone, it's the pooled money that makes the project possible) is calculated by Square Enix and the XI dev team are given a budget to pay wages, so they can make new content. This includes things like Ody, login items, new story missions, new stuff and the upcoming 20th updates.
>whine it should be $6 because you can't seem to think ahead*
Pay $6.
That pooled $6 is now calculated by Square Enix and the XI dev team now get a budget 50% smaller than last year to make new content, since almost all this money goes on wages this means they have to lay off half the workers.
you: "b-b-but I thought I would get the same as I'm getting now and pay half! why is this happening to me!?"
You now get 50% less content than what you're complaining about.
>whine it should be $3 because you can't seem to think ahead*
"I want to pay $3!"
That pooled $3 is now calculated by Square Enix and the XI dev team now get a budget 50% smaller than last year to make new content, since almost all this money goes on wages this means they have to lay off half the workers. Since the amount of staff required to make content has a breaking point, they almost all probably ask to retire or moved to another project.
You now pay $3 and you get nothing ever again, now your brain finally clicks that this entire argument wasn't a good idea because you still have no other MMORPG to move to and now the game will literally never get another update at all. However, now it's too late to undo because the team are gone and there is zero incentive to hire more people and train them to use this outdated engine.
*If you still want to play the game, you have to understand that less money coming in means a smaller budget next year. So unless you are off to play another game, why on earth would you want less things to do than what you're complaining about now?
If $12 a lot i could understand it, but it's literally not. It's $3 a week, for something you spend most of your time on. If you did not think XI was worth it, why are you here when there are literal Free to play games for you to move to? Also btw, every mmorpg has a lack of content....because they all have a higher burn rate than 11 does. So no matter where you go, you'll have the same issues once you burn through the basic content as a new player.
Square keep this game running as a service to fans and because the current developers love the game and WANT to keep working on it, they would much prefer you move to XIV because it it basically a shopping mall that most people end up spending hundreds of dollars on, with new mounts, level skips, pretty outfits and other nonsense. A company will always put more money into a game which has multiple ways to get more money out of you as opposed to a simple sub fee.
Maybe you should should stop playing the game and instead give that $12 to Nasa so the can fly to the moon? or end world hunger maybe. After all, this is $12 whole dollars we are talking about.