Quote Originally Posted by Remedi View Post
It's probably a way to limit the increase so that the servers won't explode AND ripping off a few bucks while doing it.

In otherwords it's terrible, they should've never done it and it soured everything for me, don't even care if it's ok for japan.
I doubt the servers are in such a dire state. Square Enix make a significant amount of money and could easily redirect the money made from existing purchases into expanding FFXIV's server stability/capacity. Yet they've made it clear that they fund other projects with the money made from FFXIV.