Making it FTP after 11 years of service is a slap in the face to the people who've played for so long. Just because some people want it to be FTP, doesn't mean that it is the right course of action. For 11 long years FFXI has been in service, even today with their servers catering to 2000+ people on each server, that's roughly 2-3 million US dollars a month. Now into account that back in the day the game was much more active, you have to fathom the profits that they've made. Do you seriously think that even now SE will make it FTP with all of that potential money going poof just like that?

It's straight up bad business, and only when FFXI is neck-deep in the grave will they -ever- consider making it FTP. It's PTP and it'll stay PTP, no ifs ands or buts to it. Sorry for being so blunt but people who think that it should go FTP need to realize all of the money people have spent, and how going FTP will make all of that mean nothing to dedicated FFXI players.