let's use number, will you... we know that we are more of 2.000.000 subscriber (more close of 2.5M) and that the minimal sub is 12.99 dollars per month, meaning for 2M sub they earn at least 25.980.000 dollars per month for a total of 311.176.000 per years (if the subs stay around this) seriously...

do they really really need the cash shop, with this much money coming in per month? (and it's probably far more) i doubt it. however, i have already said it in the english or french forum, i will have let it slide if it was old content they don't plan to bring back via vendor ingame. for new player to get them (like lightning return event stuff). but, i'm not sure all the money earn by FF14 is really reinvested into the game... i will be blunt, how can they have decide that upgrade the server... that limite them creation and add of content... to be the last resort when they get soo many money!

we all know that SE was in critical situation when FF14 ARR did come out and that the game did save them... but i wonder if actually they don't use this money for other game like FF15 and kingdom heart 3 (this one will probably make a tons of money) and i'm concerned to see them try to get more money from us...when we still wait to have some important issus solved like the server trouble and latency for a large part of the community.

i still wait to see yoshida come tell us why he did take this decision, and why for him the server upgrade is the last resort option, when it clearly block them in them devellopement of the game! they need to be more transparent about some decision they take.