Yea i made a humongous post a while back about the costs, for...25 servers was it? High quality ones that can let you log on and off successfully, bandwidth, expansions/more content, bug fixes, GM support, electricity, matienence...and alot of other MISC things. Its pretty fair....and its not that bad, get a job like my friend and you can do it. Remember if you like FF RPGs and never liked other MMOs or MMORPG's in general...then dont even bother.

Like now they are taking actions on players who are violating TOS and making economy fixes...takes a good team to fix those issues...if its free they wouldnt even bother so much about those things wont they? >_>