We did pay :/
And SE paid 12 month's worth of wages for 250 developers and server costs.

They left a mess in 2010 and made you pay for a pile of crap,
but they've been working diligently to clean it up for 12 months.

Fair enough pricing.

So, they make a ton of promises and expect us to pay them money in the hopes that it will roll out smoothly and quickly? After it took them a year to add just chocobos? That's too much faith they are asking, we made the plunge once and got burned, they can't seriously expect us to take the same leap of faith again.
Luckily, they can't force you to. Be smart and leave!