Originally Posted by
Misteyes
No. I don't think that's what they mean at all.
He means that they need money to keep the servers up between now and 2.0. They could just as well pull the plug and tell us all to come back when 2.0 launches.
I do not see anything in that statement that implies that they need money to get to 2.0, only that they need money to pay the costs of continuing to keep the game operational.
Please don't make it sound like people have to pay or we'll never see 2.0. SE is not selling a promise of better days to come, they're selling the game as it is now. Yoshida even says later in that same post you quoted that it's up to the players to decide if 1.20 (or 1.21, 1.22) is worth our money.