The sad fact is that there are free games out there that have bigger and better content releases than XIV gets every 8 months (Yes, its 8 months now, not 6!)

At this point, XIV and its Expansions needs to go Buy2play. There should not be a subscription unless content is going to be developed and released at a faster rate than f2p games.

Guild Wars 2 does a great job of this: Buy the game and each expansion once, and you can play it whenever you want, no subscription required, Drop it for 1 year, come back and just pick up where you left off without having to pay $15/month.