SE only need about 2-4mil playing for about a good 5years to repay back what they lost and make more out of it. SE take long term not short term like your thinking. FFXI made back what they lost making it and made x2 the amount and this is what SE is doing for FFXIV.

Who cares if FFXIV get a 5.0score for 5years+ if it have 1-4mil players the game would live for a long time just like FFXI did so i don't see the issue here. look at wow it have 13-14mil players but full of dumb??? people and i can't stand being in the game for longer then 1hour. At least ffxiv have little more grown up people.

Don't get me wrong i want ffxiv to be up there but i don't want it to won vs wow because wow players would always go back to wow.