So 1.0 owners have to start paying the monthly fee immediately?

[Abriael]

Sure, you can choose to vandalize the articles by PoV pushing, but editors are quick to revert falsehoods, and these facts are further given weight by citing outside sources.

In this case "trial" is used as a completely generic term, so I could easily change the term with another and no one would sneeze over it. It's not indicated as a specific synonym of "free trial".

A change of the term would not be seen as PoV pushing or "vandalizing", despite the fact that you like to use strong terms to try and make it look like something preposterous.

All you have is your individual opinion, no citations showing that these contradict industry standards, nor hundreds of folks checking on the accuracy of your assertions about "industry standards" or whatever.

I don't have just my individual opinion. I have Square Enix's own definition of "free trial", taken from their prior official communication and linked for your perusal. Here's two instances of many, again:

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...41f0d8c4e88994
http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...574cb9c3991c9f

In all the official communication from Square Enix "free trial" always indicates the period of free gameplay after the launch of the game. In no instance it indicates betas or early access periods. Feel free to check. The lodestone is all yours.

Of course you'll very conveniently ignore the point as you did until now.