Quote Originally Posted by Deveryn View Post
Folks never cease to amaze me. So many are ate up with stupid and butthurt over this, thinking SE intentionally decided to punish their customers in such a way.
Squeenix certainly didn't make it sound like they explored any other options. They just went with the easiest one and community backlash be damned.

This is pretty much par for the course given other recent controversies that have occurred because of Squeenix being tone deaf to what their customers want.