I fully agree with the majority of players here. I'm from Russia. I want to add, that ffxiv was just the way for me to avoid donate in such game as Aion for example. One of the reasons for joining ffxiv was its rather low price for the month sub. And if the price then was so high, i would NOT EVEN STARTED to play.
I think, that normal price for our region is 550-600Rub.~10$, that is equal to the ruble's exchange rate changes in past 3 years. That would be not so great for us, but rather fair, cause people on non-steam accounts pay incomparably more. The only difference is, that they KNEW FROM THE START, what they must pay, and had a choice not to spend their money for the game itself.
But all I want to ask is, what we actually can do? I don't think SE will be interested in reading forums. So, what do you think we can really do: only drop this game/becoming to pay almost 3.5% from our average monthly wages? Or do you think there is a real possibility to influence this situation?