FFXI is bringing in money, ffxiv is costing them money.

You have to think at some point they are just going to look at it logically and fiscally. The playerbase for ff14 is small, even if the game somehow relaunches how many people are going to come running back, if it went pay to play how many would stay? I think they are slowly coming to this realization. Yes the game needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, but its name is already pretty tarnished. The only people staying around are there because of friends playing and linkshell communities. While this is good, at some point thats going to die off as people find a new game or better things to do.

You come to this forum and see people who hate the game.. but stick around being hopeful. Its nearly a year and the numbers are slowly declining and the game is free to play (opinion based, but seeing how many posts have people saying "well i don't even login anymore"). Hell, maybe Yoshi finally realized that he was put as captain of a sinking ship.