Just a few quick points:

1. WTFast - I don't really want to get much into an argument about WTFast. There were numerous threads in 2014 about this problem from multiple users, and I participated in some of those threads. The end result was that SquareEnix would tell people to contact their ISPs and then the ISPs would tell people to contact SquareEnix. It was a loop resulting in no solutions. Some said they were leaving the game, I just accepted I needed to keep buying WTFast to play this. Other games I can log into without WTFast: Everything else. (EQ, EQ2, Aion, Tera, The Secret World, Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, Diablo 3, any steam game, etc.) I also changed computers since 2014 and the issue remained with FFXIV (and only FFXIV). It's not that relevant to this discussion though to the greater issues at hand.

2. 45 Days v. 5 years. Are you really arguing that these are the same? This is ridiculous to me. There is a huge difference from someone taking a break of a few months and someone who showed no interest in logging in for 5 years. Yes it's a slippery-slope type argument but this argument is clearly a throw-away as written.

3. Obligations. I'll agree again that they aren't obligated or required to do anything. They can shut the game down tomorrow if they felt like it and we wouldn't have anything we could really say about it. But they should have thought this out much better. I've been a Square fan since Final Fantasy I on the NES and have purchased pretty much every game in the series, in addition to other products they sell. I even just bought the collectors edition of heavensward for $60. How they choose to handle their good will is on them. If I knew what was really happening before resubbing I would have walked away and not returned. (I'd probably still buy FFXV though...we'll see.)

4. Landmark: Is this really relevant? The game isn't even officially released yet and comparing expectations for Betas isn't comparable to games that have been released for several years. Also we all know that Daybreak has a huge mess on its hands right now with the cancellation of EQNext and is pretty much not a company to look to if you are trying to avoid PR nightmares.