1. We're not thinking about charging at this time. Right now, we just want to make the game as good as possible.

2. Due to the server-side interface, many things that should be easy are proving more difficult than anticipated. After some restructuring, it should be a lot easier to implement many of the features that everyone is asking for now.

3. Because FFXIV is built off the profits of FFXI, and not backed by investors in the traditional game design sense, there is no danger of FFXIV going offline for the foreseeable future.

Super paraphrasing Yoshi-P here, but he pretty much has addressed all of those issues in interviews. S-E predicted most of their revenue moving toward being based online. They will throw money at this until it is profitable.