/em shakes magic eight ball
"outlook not so good"

Welp, there you have it.

In all honesty though, I don't believe XI and thus far XIV have been mainstream enough outside of japan to ever warrant the additional costs of putting out prepaid cards. If anything one could hope and pray they simply allow direct credit card transactions. Most countries don't even have that option.

For the desperate, I vaguely recall the XI cards from Japan worked else ware, and a few people would import them. But even so that's not economical on the player's part when most banks will open you up a checking and debit card account for as low at $5 balance.