I think the reason why everyone is freaking out is...

[Synfrag]

Agree completely. $13 isn't bad and for the people riding on the "It's the concept, not the amount" wagon, boycotting isn't going to do anything good if you want to help for the future. It's everyone's choice to stay or go. If you want cookie cutter MMO with a few new features there are numerous other games.

Warning! Comparisons and Opinion to follow

Personally after seeing many MMO launches and continuing to play some I have the most hope for FFXIV.

Aion's launch for example, the first 3 months were terrible (and payed for). There wasn't much content, server outages, server rollbacks, almost no items and now 2 years later they have added only a handful of endgame instances, a "new" graphics engine which is a joke and completely broken the game by quadrupling drop rates. Their "content" patches were at 6-8 month intervals if even that vs. our 1-3 month intervals. What is NC Soft's development plan? Add more costumes and cosmetic garbage! Yay!

WoW cannot be used as a comparison for development because their budget dwarfs FFXIV. Not to mention they don't have to pay writers, modelers, animators, lighting artists or texture designers because it either doesn't exist or any 12 year old can do it in google sketchup

SE on the other hand is not only overhauling it's entire world, adding content and fixing broken things over the next 11-13 months but at the end of that it's dropping in our laps a whole new redesigned game for no additional cost. The time and money going into this project deserves our paying support. 1.19 was great, golden no but still great and come 1.20 or 1.21 I truly think it will be at it's launch ready state.

So we will begin paying for a launch ready game when it is launch ready, then getting a new 2.0 version for free. How do people argue with that logic?

[Molly_Millions]

How do people argue with that logic?

With illogical arguments. You've been reading these threads, right?

[Efrye]

I didn't read further than the first page, but I still want to add that I agree wholeheartedly with the OP. Especially with his answer to "Why pay for an incomplete game with no content till 2.0?".

There is tons of content already and there's going to be more with each patch, some of which is developed specifically for those of us who stay with the game pre 2.0. For me, that's more than enough to justify the full monthly fees.

[Synfrag]

With illogical arguments. You've been reading these threads, right?

Oh right... that!

[Zeroeffect]

I would pay for this game even if it was crap just as long as I enjoyed it.

If you enjoy the game then pay for it and if you don't like the game don't it's really that simple.

[Kinghoran]

I would pay for this game even if it was crap just as long as I enjoyed it.

If you enjoy the game then pay for it and if you don't like the game don't it's really that simple.

That's so simple and yet people either don't want to see that logic or just can't fathom that they could just walk away from this game.

OR, they could sign up for a paid account and if it turns out that paid PC accounts also get the 3 month free to play trial period like the PS3 people then they could just cancel the account before the 3 months are up if they really hate paying for a game.

[MrLion]

Please keep it to the topic...I don't care about who doesn't have common sense or who's dumb.

[MrLion]

Good support for this thread, but not enough to ensure that people understand what is going to happen to the world of Eorzea.

[Bled]

I reserve my judgments of the games "completion" till the patch actually drops. I do however refuse to pay for a game that I feel is not complete, so i don't care as to Yoshi's percentages he gave. There are too many good games all ready out and coming out for anyone to waste money and time, on a game they feel is half complete.

TL;DR
If YOU feel its incomplete don't pay for it... problem solved. The first portion of the billing cycle will speak volumes as to how "complete" the game really is, till then chill.