Reason for the payment system change (Found it!)

[Swords]

I'd have to agree with david, it really sounds more like some contractual agreement or security breach with PoL or something else. I highly doubt SE is changing this because they want too, and considering how sudden all this is they were probably forced too do it.

[Romanova]

and considering how sudden all this is they were probably forced too do it.

...how many times does this need to be said...

We know for a fact ffxi was planned to be switched to this system for a year now. It is the same system they initially set up for 14 with the intent to bring ffxi over so they had them all on the same system. This isn't a "they were suddenly forced to".

It is more likely either a. they are getting ready for ff14 to go to p2p and wanted to get them on the same system beforehand (since that was the original intent), or b. they put it off while trying to fix 14 since it wasn't going p2p right away, and they just now got around to doing it.

There could be other reasons for the timing, but this was a planned thing for quite some time, not a rushed job.