Hi! Eorzean Adventurer here, hailing from Greece. Please don't cut off FFXIV from us!

[Gramul]

I NEED FINAL FANTASY if I am to make and continue resisting. FINAL FANTASY was my life before all this, imagine now. My subscription ends in 60 days. I want to be able to renew. Please don't stop supporting us. PLEASE.

No. You seriously do not. There is so much more to life than a game designed to waste your time.

But I wish you and your country the best of luck with this whole situation.

[Talia_Hailwind]

No. You seriously do not. There is so much more to life than a game designed to waste your time.

But I wish you and your country the best of luck with this whole situation.

For some unfortunate few, life and the people around you can make life itself a really horrible experience, thats why we have games so we can escape that.
The OP maybe one such individual and I can see where he's coming from.

[Lexxuk]

As a fellow European (British, so we're not exactly best buddies with the EU and are having a referendum on leaving it next year), I'm appalled at the behaviour of Greece. You were in trouble, because you were spending beyond your means, way beyond your means. You were helped out, given loans on the proviso that you buck up and start spending what you can afford. Yes, it means austerity, lots of countries went through austerity, the UK's debt went through the roof and is slowly being brought back down.

But, you have now voted to ignore your debt, now go and work out how much that debt is to each and every EU citizen. You have cost every man, woman and child €500. That is the debt of Greece, if every EU citizen were to chip in to clear that debt, it would cost us €500 each. You are refusing to pay your debt, so where do you think this money came from? Was it magically produced when Merkel ran a dungeon a few billion times?

No, it's from governments, from taxation, from us. So no, I have no pity for Greece, if I were to overspend on my cards and suddenly find I was unable to pay, I wouldn't be able to take a vote on if I should repay what I owe to the card company.

And the 24% thing, that'll be VAT, it's already 20% in the UK, why? Because we know that our income from taxation generally needs to be higher than our spending, unlike Greece who thinks they can spend money they don't have and keep expecting loans they have no intention of repaying.

[Hypie]

So they said "No" and made a Party out of Counting the Voices....uhm....what the Hell are they doing?

[Spiroth]

So they said "No" and made a Party out of Counting the Voices....uhm....what the Hell are they doing?

Despite the propaganda going on about what we were voting, we were voting about if we want to sell our country to the European Banks, or not, by accepting or not accepting the society destroying laws they were trying to force on us, which proved a mistake too the past 6 years..

No matter how hard they tried to mislead Europen citizens with propaganda, we were NOT voting against Europe/Euro.

[Rannie]

Yo op I wish your country the best of luck with all that's happening and I'm sure se is watching it as well and figuring out what they can do ^_^.

[KisaiTenshi]

we were NOT voting against Europe/Euro.

No, you absolutely are. A referendum is a legal action. If you reject the bailout conditions, then your country has effectively voted itself out of the Eurozone, and that may even result in being removed from the EU entirely.

Italy, Portugal and Ireland are next. No more haircuts. Greece is Bankrupt. Game over.

And over in America-land, Puerto Rico's in the same predicament.

[TheUltimate3]

Mainly because I'm curious, can someone help me out here.

Greece is in financial ruin for reason I care little about, and the European Union effectively bailed them out under the condition they do this or that to A) Pay the EU back, and B) prevent this from happening again. And the response from Greece as to A) not make the changes to prevent it from happening again (not sure about this one) and/or B) Simply not pay back the debt and the EU is about to give Greece it's financial ass.

Is this an accurate cliff note version of this situation, because I'm trying to wrap my head around it as well as how is this Square Enix's problem.

[Rannie]

The problem seems to be that a lot of things are giving up on Greece money wise ie pay pal banks refusing to allow money with drawl due to panicked people. Most of the ways to pay for the game minus time cards require the money coming directly from said bank account thus causing sub money to stop going through and accounts bot being paid. That is were se can come in and look over the situation and see of there might be other options they can come up with for paying the sub.

If that is everything can be mellowed out and worked out.

[Lexxuk]

Despite the propaganda going on about what we were voting, we were voting about if we want to sell our country to the European Banks, or not, by accepting or not accepting the society destroying laws they were trying to force on us, which proved a mistake too the past 6 years..

No matter how hard they tried to mislead Europen citizens with propaganda, we were NOT voting against Europe/Euro.

Referendum was simple. Do we agree to the terms and conditions of the bailout which were imposed on us when we accepted the terms and conditions of the bail out. What do you think Europe is going to do now? Say "sure Greece, you have an amazing track record of keeping within your means and repaying the loans we gave you, have some more money".

What do you think the result of an EU wide referendum would be if the question was "Should we give Greece more money... yes/no"? Hint, MAJOR no.