Actually what Yoshi said was, "We stuck with subscriptions because we wanted a stable amount of money to pay developers to develop patches on time. We didn't want to get into a situation where we couldn't afford to make a patch," he continued. "As a producer, I of course will be watching how the money flows and will evaluate the situation. If we had to change to a free to play model, we would probably offer a hybrid model with free to play servers and subscriptions servers, but it's not something we have planned right now."

In other words unless things go terribly wrong and they start bleeding subscribers they will not be going to F2P. F2P is a contingency plan if the game fails. WoW even has a plan for this type of thing and I have absolutely no doubt that they would go F2P to keep that cash cow running. So essentially his stance did not change, and was simply stating that unless things went bad there will be no F2P model or any variation of it.