Square are banking on players not having the guts to quit or at least take a few months break, let's see if they are right.

If this were not the case they would not be taking a wait and see aproach. If you want them to change this best thing is to either quit till they do or take a few months off to play other games to send out a message, this is not only for FFXI here...this is for every MMO they release, if they see they can get away with this they will do it for other games too.