Compromise: Just Charge $5 For Now. Once 2.0 is Out, Then Charge $12

[Starlord]

I think it is pretty simple. A lot of people don't want to pay full price for a product that is incomplete. True enough, the game is much much better than it was 12 months ago, but on the other hand it still isn't great. It still feels like half a game in lots of places.

The old argument "when is an MMORPG ever complete?" does not apply here. We are talking about having a content rich game that works fluidly. FFXIV even now cannot claim to be such a game. Until that changes, they can't really justify charging full subscription fees. If cost is such a big factor, I'd rather they just closed the servers and worked solely on 2.0 for now. Even with full subscription fees, it's unlikely that the profits made would be enough to satisfy the boardroom at SE. So why even bother?

and thats exactly why Yoshi-P Stated this:

However, these two things will be going into 1.20, so we would like players to experience 1.19 and the things that we've changed up until then. These things that are still lacking are going to be covered in 1.20, and our hope is to have the players play and see the direction the game is moving in, the improvements that we have made. There's also the fact that over the next year we will be releasing the Seventh Umbral Era content, which can only be played during this year. This type of content (which can only be experienced before the release of 2.0 as a year-long event) -- this is pretty much the first time that it's been done in this industry. With all of this coming ahead, players can make the decision at 1.20 to decide whether to pay or not.

If at that time you're still having some doubts, players can wait until 1.21, when we add the job system, or wait until 1.22 and make the decision after hearing what the player reactions are for those. What we really want is for each player to have the decision be in his or her own hands.

And as you also know, being a title that is so large, we have costs. It's been a year for free-play for a lot of players, and during that time we've continued development with a very large team -- 250 people -- and we've continued running the servers. We put a lot of resources into this. So it was my decision that after releasing 1.20 we'd have the players decide whether or not they also want to make the commitment of paying.

Another words, if you or anyone else doesn't feel like the game is up to your standards, to just check back at a later patch from users within the game ( as they will obviously post Youtube vids on about it).

Edit: Also, this means that they are going to pull all the stops in 1.20 to make this " Complete game" for people that call it "Incomplete"