That's a bit of a blanket, Mirage.

As a game designer and tester also, I (and my team) have great HOPE for FFXIV, and great respect for Yoshi-P, but we're mostly concerned for that game's longevity. It looks really pretty and fixes many of the issues with this game, but it also somewhat lacks SOME of the charms of this game, therefore on a personal level, I don't want to play it yet (I just wanna look at it... so pretty ~mesmerized~).

I'd hope though that they just talk to each other, learn what to do for both games, because this one doesn't need that much, it just keeps getting more things it doesn't need (e.g. the main topic of this thread), as everyone says.

There's listening to your players too much, too. Now if only we could just take the average of the two games and their design philosophies and rock out.