Why 14,99 $?

[Taekrys]

I don't think the OP is saying that it's too expensive or asking for the price to go down, but only asking why is it that almost every MMORPG chooses $14.99 as the monthly fee.

Yes, at least the most famous ones. I suppose less famous MMOs in their starting days can try something different (before eventually going F2P). To be precise, my question was also why they can only jump from that to nothing, without even considering lowering gradually before F2P.

And about F2P for FFXIV, while I'm sure implying it will go that way, that's just because P2P MMOs model is deemed to die.
It can take one year, three years or five years, but eventually even WoW itself will go F2P (I think that will happen only after Titan will get out).

I'm not saying this will happen any soon for FFXIV. And after hearing you all out, I'm quite sure it won't.
In fact, I think this angry reaction is very funny, on a psicological level.

I expected people would be happy to spend less. I supposed that, given the chance, most of you would just say "Yeah, that sucks, less would be better. But hey, I want to play so badly that I'm still ok with that."
While you answered, instead, things like "That's exactly what they need to cover their expenses! We know, it's a precise calculation!" or "It's cheap, you dumbass! Don't pay if you don't want! We love SE and we give that little gladly every month!".
It's very... Woah! Most of you actually LOVE paying every month that fee and gets angry if someone talks about paying less. What's more, you hate the idea of the game getting F2P. You DON'T WANT this 14,99 thing to move an inch.

I started asking something that didn't even consider this whole discussion, while you made me discover - going completely out from my argument - that you are *happy* with it and you are ready to defend the choice SE made to take 15$/month from you, with your claws.
And this is actually way more interesting than my original question!

I'm not criticizing now, I'm genuinely curious while asking this: why are you that happy of paying 150$ a year to play this game?
Why do you get angry if someone speaks of paying less (I wasn't, but you thought I did, so that still counts) or even not paying at all?
It is because you don't want to feel tricked in having paid what you paid till now? Or because you are scared that the price lowering would mean this MMO is going to fail?