Re: FF 14

yes, with more funding servers can be maintained and made more reliable, giving better connections for your games and eliminating nuisance problems much more quickly, like glitches and hackers etc.  However, as sony, and before that even blizzard entertainment, have shown that if the game sells well enough these things can be maintained without that additional cost to the consumer.  Generally you get the game update add-ons as well like in WoW, but I don't see why they couldn't go the route of fallout 3 by providing 5 add-ons and give you the option of whether or not to buy them.  I certaintly don't want to pay a monthly fee for on-line, and won't be doing it.