Quote Originally Posted by Fear View Post
They won't shut the servers down untill the 2.0 Open-Beta otherwise not everyone will be able to play FFXIV.

1.23 & Closed 2.0 beta's will run side-by-side and 1.23 will be turned off around 2.0 Open-beta.

I don't think they'd be stupid enough to close 1.23 down and 1/2 the playerbase doesn't get into the beta, they risk losing 20k subs or so.
They said 1.0 will not run side by side with 2.0 once it goes into Beta -- unless of course SE changed their mind, it's not a question of intelligence, which they would actually be smart to close down 1.0 during 2.0's beta, it's more of a matter of efficiency; Why not bring the two teams together for the final push?

They already said it will take awhile to convert 1.0 > 2.0 data and they don't want us updating during the process.