"Final Fantasy XIV has shipped 190,000 copies in Japan, 210,000 copies in North America and 230,000 copies in Europe as of November 4, 2010" (wikipedia)
Thats about 31 MILLION dollars leeched out of the world for bunk software. Version 2.0 should be free for the people that paid for FFXIV over a year ago.
I have been here since closed beta and I am done. I was under the impression that Yoshi was going to turn THIS game around before asking for money not charge me subscription, scrap it, and sell me another. What a money grab.