"As I mentioned via press releases a while back, Square Enix has entered into a strategic partnership with SNDA, a major Chinese video game developer. With their cooperation, we’ll be bringing FFXIV version 2.0 to China, which boasts the largest online gaming community in the world. This is one market that no global online operation can ignore, ours included.

Official service in China is scheduled to commence a while after version 2.0’s global launch, and so I thought it’d be good to check out ChinaJoy, the nation’s largest video game expo. We’re not necessarily timing it with the event, but the new promo site will be unveiled very soon. Between the site’s kickoff, gamescom 2012 in August, and the FINAL FANTASY 25th anniversary event, we’ll be releasing a flood of info." ... Mr. FFXIV Producer

I'm assuming that this is what this thread is about and what it says to me is that the Chinese will be playing the game. I personally know and use to talk to some RMT in FFXI and they were Chinese. The particular RMT I'm talking about didn't impede on peoples play time and they played for fun as well as for money. It's funny because in FFXI Chinese were shunned because of RMT activity and nobody wanted to play with them for that reason. If their government was monitering their game time then they saw no threat because we all knew about the Chinese players on our server. They had a few people including myself that would sit and chat or do some activity with them but we were few and far between. The RMT that bothered me were the ones farming tree cuttings ( Joy Toy too) all the time, made it difficult to farm them but it also made for a little healthy competition which always makes farming more fun. So if Chinese could play with us in FFXI why could they not play with us in FFXIV?