If you add a shared sub model between XI and XIV

[Alhanelem]

I'm worried a move like this if successful will make the game near unplayable to the people actually paying for it.

Your worries are unjustified. No one is or should expect some massive influx of players from such a program. This is about a moderate number of curious souls who have heard about FFXI but are already subscribed to an MMO and don't really want to pay for two.

Everything is limited, whether it's queues to enter content or just competition for stuff like NM claims.

I already have to swap server sometimes to do Emp weapon farming, this would make it pointless cause all servers would be overcamped.

1)the most famous NMs were changed to force pops which solved that problem years ago. I don't know how many other NMs people care much about other than making some gil, which you can do with almost any NM.
2)With the exception of Asura and maybe Bahamut most servers are well below the capacity they can handle and would welcome an influx of players.
3) Why the heck are you regularly server hopping for emp weapons? Why not just stay on the lesser populated server and give that server population +1? You can still do anything you set your mind to on any other server.



There is absolutely no way this would happen but if so many curious XIV players did come to FFXI, all they'd have to do is add new worlds. It's not like there's a hard limit to how many players they can accomodate. Again, there's no way this would happen, but even if it did, the solution is simple.

Everyone wants more players. Why would that be a bad thing? If they need more capacity, they can add more capacity.