I feel that currently the game is where it should have been at launch. I would have paid my sub back then for what we have now, so what wrong with paying full price?

If we pay 1/2 price up until ver 2.0 comes out, how many people would be pissed that all of a sudden they now have to pay twice as much in December 2012? You know this will happen.

I have a feeling that a lot of people who say they will not pay to play, will be gone for a month or two and then come to find they miss the game. We have been playing the game for a year for free. Its hard to see all the work that has gone into FFXIV over the past year when we've been playing it for just as long. From that point of view it's hard to say yes this game is worth money now. But if you never played FFXIV before and you just arrive into the game there is a lot to do, and it's worth paying for.

Think of it like this: Patch 1.20 is the new PC launch of old FFXIV. We get a last little bit of free play time after 1.20 lands and then we decide pay for it or put it down.

From that point it's like any MMO, it has updates. We just know what we'll have a year from now. And that update is going to be HUGE!

So again. Ask yourself. What in 1.19 and 1.20 is missing from a solid starting point of a newly launched game? If FFXIV started a year ago with 1.20 would you be willing to pay for it? You already own the box, you've gotten a free year to play.

People are pissed that what they have been getting for free is now, not free. Those that don't want to pay that like the game would rather pay half price. But the game from my point of view is where it should have been at launch, according to SE even more so with 1.20. So why wouldn't we pay full price? We have a very playable game, with a lot to do and a major expansion coming in a year.