Quote Originally Posted by Daranion View Post
why are you all thanking the cash shop? This is our sub money at work here. Come on people did you not get the memo from the fanfests back then? "For the first time we will reinvest the money that FFXIV makes into upgrading our server infrastructure" We've known this for months! Cash shop purchases only fund cash shop purchases
I vaguely remember that statement but I think I kind of disregarded it because it didn't get any more specific than that. "Upgrading our server infrastructure" is one of those phrases that doesn't really mean anything. They could've added some RAM or improved their backup process or bought glowing decals in the shapes of the server names to stick on the machines.

Moving to a new data center and installing better hardware is a nice juicy specific statement that actually means things to real people.