Quote Originally Posted by Sigma-Astra View Post
That's a poor argument and you know it. It doesn't matter if someone did or didn't like 1.0 at the time, some people couldn't afford to pay the subscription fee for 1.0, some didn't know XIV existed. It could be a plethora of reasons. Stop making baseless assumptions to back up a selfish "screw you, got mine" mentality that doesn't need to exist with a pair of virtual earrings. This is all incredibly petty.
It was free for a whole year. Those who left either couldn't afford it, or didn't want to pay for the game in that stage of repair and were just playing because it was free. I remember players then saying one or the other.