FFXIV 2.0 looks really promising. I don't understand though why I am being asked to pay for a game which will essentially not exist in a years time. The new game will be exactly that, a new game. Why am I being asked to pay to be a beta player. SE says it has 250 people working on the project. Well to be honest they have thousands more that are beta testers, us. And we are to pay to be beta testers? I'm sorry but no. I played xi for years, I stuck by this since launch. I invested heavily in a new rig to play it. Like most of us I have a real love for FF mmo's but this is something I don't feel I can support. I don't begrudge paying to play a game, but not under these circumstances.