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

[Abriael]

So you are quoting yourself quoting the devs, good for you.

The devs put free trial before launch in the timeline. Before. Launch.

The 1 month free subscription is unrelated, and occurs after launch.

You continue to ignore the fact that Square Enix always intended "free trial" as a free period of gameplay of the full game. Not a beta.

They called "free trial" the first month after the launch of 1.0. They called it "Free trial" when they extended it the first two times. They called it "free trial" when they extended it further for almost a year. They called it "free trial" when they closed it.

They never called a beta "free trial" (as a matter of fact, I've never seen any developer/publisher since the times of Ultima Online's beta call a beta "free trial", not even once, developers know better than doing that, as a "free trial" is a perk that goes exclusively at the advantage of the player, a beta is give and take). How do you explain it? Did they suddenly change their dictionary?