For some reason, I'm sure that we were told at some point that there are 15 people on the dev team for ffxi.

Also I'm surprised that they plan to charge from nov/dec, when they're completely revamping the game (from what a friend told me - I didn't read the ffxiv stuff) in Jan 2013.

I'm technically a subscriber, but since I never bought any crista, or submitted my account details for ffxiv (I hope) they won't be taking any money from me, and my account will simply fade away. Assuming that the new payment method that we made for ffxi doesn't allow payments for ffxiv too. I'll have to keep an eye out for any additional payments being taken, I guess.