Why I started playing FF14

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Very true. just also adding to the paranoia is the number itself:

the revenue lists 372 million yen generated by subscriptions total for ffxi and ffxiv, which is 3.1 million dollars at current exchange rate / average 12 dollars per sub = 260k subs.

if an MMO is down to that many subs, I can definitely see it needing a cash shop to bolster its numbers, especially when trying to fund a multi-million dollar expansion.

These numbers are just for giggles, though. I wish they would just come out and make their numbers real.