Quote Originally Posted by Velhart View Post
SE has no obligation to the people who played 1.0-1.23b beyond what they have already done. You had free service up to the last few months and a permanent discount on your subscription fee for ARR. You also did not have to pay for 2.0. Even had the story slightly altered to transition you into 2.0.
I rather pay 20 a month for content we had in 1.23b then what we have now.They have done a lot but you have to remember, back then on the forums and the player polls (the timing they were released) it was never hinted at that they would remake the game entirely like this. IN FACT...Rokien was the one who kept saying they are going to change it entirely and make it more like WoW...and you know what happened? Everyone made fun of him on the forum and ran him out. No one whatsoever was given the impression that they were going to entirely change the battle system, remove our stats and entirely change our game 100%.

When they released those surveys was in the early 1.x stages when there was nearly nothing to do and the battle system/separate leveling system needed to be changed. So by the time 1.23b hit at the end..most of us were like, oh awesome, its finally where it needs to be. Don't even get me started on what happened on xivpads chat when we saw how they took away our stats. People were saying it must be because its the beta and a joke. "Don't worry guys, they wouldn't take away our stuff like that lol" My heart sunk when I saw my years worth of hard work turned into garbage in seconds...as did my friends. Nearly all of them left and never came back.

If they straight up said , hey guys we are totally changing the battle system, etc (even the mock up pic looked like the game was staying the same) you think the reaction of 1.x players would have been the same? Since most of them quit who I knew...I doubt it :P