I can't even be bothered to read your mammoth of a post, I've made my point that some people will just be stubborn and won't regard anything as good because its not a remake of your beloved FFXI. Nobodies wrong in opinion I guess but I do feel very very sorry for you because one day whether you like it or not FFXI will die, and your hopes at the moment are that FFXIV dies before it (which as we all know is fairly unlikely). Who are you to tell SE how to run their business? They are successful no matter how you dress it up to be bad. Like all developers they produce bad games, happens. They have tried their hardest to improve it and if you can't accept that then there's no helping you. I've said my bit, there's no pleasing you, you're just determined to put down everything because your 10+ year old game has lost some (not all) support which would have happened anyway. I wish you the best... You'll need it.