Hi there.

To answer to the thread's question.
My FC, my friends and I (up to 10 people) are all living in France and we aren't planning to play until they work this out.
For sure, we could just go on PayPal to create an account, add some money each month, buy crista regularly to buy in game time.
Or, they do something to allow us to use our debit/credit card, because that workaround is just tiresome.
Instead, we'll wait for 8.0 to be announced, subscribe for a month and rush through the content.

Personnally, that situation saddens me a lot, for the past three years, I haven't unsubscribe, not even once.
And from what I saw, Square Enix don't seem to care that much.
But who knows, they might come to their senses and fix it.
Only time will tell.