Is it fact that 100% of the income FFXI generates goes to supporting FFXI? I assume they would want to make a profit from it, it would be interesting to see what the spend to cost ratio actually is (I know we will never see this).

The funny thing is, even though people disagree on this subject, everyone wants to see FFXI succeed, so kudos to all, you all really care about the future of the game.

On subject, I personally think that a joint subscription would bring more people to XI, hopefully the reduced subscription fees would be offset by an increase in player numbers, with more spotlight on XI, I would hope we would see more development. I see more people leave these days as they have run out of relevant content to keep them playing... I wouldn't even call them serious endgame players, more casual endgame, the serious endgame people left a long time ago, Dynamis D was given as an example as current endgame earlier, it's four year old content, you can't argue that it's been rushed....