They rushed 14 out to compete with a WoW expansion. That completely backfired.

"Oh geez! We better make nice with the 11 crowd." Throws everything, but the kitchen sink at us via abyssea.

"OK we have just about a year b4 XIV 2.0 comes out, and the game is less turdlike." Strings along XI faithful with more VW (crap drop rate/system), WoE (freaking dead as a doornail on weekdays, barely operational on weekends in JP primetime), and revamp/add multitudes of timesinks to old content).

"See! In a year XIV will finally be worth paying for, and XI users will be so bored to tears they will have no choice. They must move to XIV..." No thank you!!!

Honestly.. SE wake up, and throw some money at the XI Dev team for god's sake. Is it really that difficult of a concept.

PS: Guy who always denies the majority of profits from XI are not being funneled into correcting XIV... seriously? Are you really that delusional?