I have no problem with FFXIV, I just don't have any reason to support it with money I don't need to spend in advance with a bulk order of crysta.

Again, FFXI is a sub product under the umbrella of FFXIV. It is funded from the XIV budget, to the benefit of XIV since they get more money back in profits than it costs (and possibly more now since they aren't paying so much in wages). You can literally go check their financial reports PDF and see DQ10 is listed and ff11 is not, even though ff11 makes more money and has more players. They also stopped counting profits towards 11 when it was handed over to Yoshida. Which is why ff14 is counted as the most profitable SE title soon after (cause they stopped counting profits from 11 6-7 years ago) - go check the wiki entries for most profitable titles at SE and see the numbers for 11 stopped being counted at that date and stood still since, while 14 carried on with the benefit of 11 profits being added onto its numbers.