http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2442149
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...7af43f3c43828a
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...6869b10e012e57
Scroll down and look for the prices and tell me prices haven't come down. If you haven't saved up gil in anticipation for housing for the past ten, plus, months, then that's your fault.
Also no idea where you got he said he'd never change 1.0. He came into the game in December 2010 and after a year of attempting to salvage it, it was decided it redo the whole thing based on:
"However, outdated and cumbersome programming choices in the game code prevented the more radical changes necessary to improve the game." taken from the Wiki on A Realm Reborn.
Its a successful game, it didn't resort to Pay2Win whenever the monthly sub was removed during 1.0, and XI has gone how many years without going free to play or Pay2Win? Yoshi is basically top chain of command when it comes to ARR and well respected in the company, so if his game was doing badly, I could see the company forcing him, but that's not the case. These are the kind of facts I'm talking about.