Point number 1: FFXIV has about 20 servers for Japan alone.
Point number 2: North America and Europe have about 20 servers between them.
Point number 3: In order to reduce server load on North America and European servers, Square Enix has decided to severely restricted log-in access for those subscribers.

As opposed to say...adding more servers?!?

If I were to read between the lines, I could conclude that they are basically saying, "We don't want Westerners to play this game."

What will end up happening, though, is all those Americans and Europeans will just roll characters on the Japanese servers.