No one outside of Square can answer this and I highly doubt they will. Here are some recent statements from Wada who would probably be in control of making that call.

According to Wada most recent press releases and Financial Report. (all of these can be found at Square Enix investor relations)

- FFXIV will take some more time before it is ready but we believe it is on track. (Press Release before the financial statements)

- Repairing and restoring faith in the current released mmos. (Recent primary goal of the 2010 Financial Report for the next year)

- We will not put more money into mmos titles until the current ones become profitable (Press Release)


From Yoshida's Interview.

-PS3 release will be considered FFXIV's last chance.


So atm it seems they are going to continue to back it until PS3, if that fails the game will probably be scraped.


And despite what people want to hear, we demanded a drastic change in the game's fundamental elements and we got a new development team. IF tanka was still here we would of had more major content patchs... the whole company system, and co-op building thing they showed was scheduled for the march massive content update... which was scrapped with Yoshida.

So yes the game has been out about year, but atm it has only been in development for ~6 1/2 months with 1/2 a month involving the earthquake disaster. And they had to rewrite the core mechanics of the game and redesign the whole games focus.

So in the end it will take SE time to basically remake the game. Chances are GW2, Tera, TOR will be out before this game truly gets to the point it will shine. IN the end if you want to play a FF game play this, if not play one of the other games.

This game will never hit the million sub mark most likely, it will never be considered a Massive success, it will never be the "WoW killer" In the end play it if you like it, quit if you don't.