all we ever get lately is delays delays delays, the new avatars and such are a year overdue. it's like they've just become bored of the idea and dropped it without telling us and moved onto a new project. SE is now making many games (such as hitman, tomb raider, FFXIV, FF13-2/3/4/5... etc all the ffxiii games are shit anyway, black ops, deus ex HR, sleeping dog) but cant spare the people or time to give the loyal players on FFXI the updates they've been waiting for!