Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
Because SE is a business.

And businesses like to maximize profits.

Why else do you think games try and cater to wider audiences? To get more people paying money.

If even a portion of your playerbase is only giving you 1/3 of the money they could be, why not simply address that and give them a reason to give you 3/3 of the money they could be?

Simply saying "Oh, enough people pay the full amount to keep us going" is not an effective business model.
What you said would be logical for a company having only their mmo out there, and no other game around. But it doesn't apply to SE. They are earning way much more money with people stopping their sub to go buy the FF7 remake (or any other SE games) at full price, than with players staying subscribed all the time to FF14 for only 10 euros per month and not playing anything else.