Yoshida has indeed stated that he would shut down the servers instead of making the game F2P/B2P.

He has also stated that they need ONLY 400,000 concurrent subscriptions to consider the game a success. Considering they can get that from their Japanese Continget alone, there is a 0.01% chance that this game will repeat the path of 1.0, and a 0.00% chance of it going the way of SWtOR/D&DO.

When those people stop playing it will allow other, more worthy and willing to subscribe, people to log in.

1.0 players lose free access on Monday, so those who didn't rebuy will either subscribe or leave.