Oh shista, it's Crysta!
Crysta sounds like a bad porn name, but it's also what Square Enix is calling their new currency for the upcoming online game, Final Fantasy XIV. It's also the name of the subject of this fan page. Wow.
You'll convert your IRL money into this Crysta, which Eurogamer says will go for the rate of 100 Crysta to £1 or €1, depending on your location. Your money will be wasted changed in blocks of 500, 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000 or 10,000, and they say that there will be a cap on how much Crysta your account can hold at one time.
What did they have against Gil?
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10:00 AM on 09.22.2010 | 
Also is any entity more pompous than Square enix has been in the last decade or so?
You don't have to use the Crysta system, either, if you set up automatic subscription. Those UltimateGameCard things that they sell in drugstores are redeemable for Crysta, however.
I'm just waiting for the day one of these currencies becomes popular enough to be tracked and reported on FOREX watches. Crysta replaces the Yen!! MS Points replaces the Dollar!!
Currently you can only have $100 worth of "Crysta" on your Square-Enix account at any one time.
But, with the only thing you can purchase with Crysta right now being FF14 services fees, what would you need more than that on there for? The highest-priced payment option is the 180-day plan for $47 and change, anyway.
This is one expensive game.