Quote Originally Posted by AmyRae View Post
I'm not going to rewrite my case to satisfy what you wish to read between the lines.
Your case is that a lower fee will increase revenue due to the higher number of subscribers. There, no reading between the lines necessary. The only problem with your case is the flimsy evidence for it. A poll on a fan site which indicated that maybe people would quit and "most were not against paying half". I fear for any company you ever run if that's enough for you to rework your business model.

Quote Originally Posted by AmyRae View Post
Do you have a case to make for paying full price or not?
Hmm, great question.. I suppose things like "you should have been paying for the past year" and "you knew the price going in and purchased the game anyway" and "there's no real evidence that it would benefit SE to do otherwise" wouldn't really work here. But, since you are so concerned with SE's bottom line, and you find polls to be so paramount to assessing how it would be affected, here you go:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ng-in-November

Now, we should have an interview with Yoshi P, and say "A recent poll on the official forums showed that over three times more players will stay once the fee is introduced than will leave" or, to put it another way, "less than 25% of players said they would quit".

That poll has real, verifiable numbers on the absolute question at hand, and it's on the official site. Apparently, Lodestone forum goers are way more hardcore than your infamous BG players.