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I just want to leave my opinion because I'm going to uninstall this game and since this part of the forum is where I spent most of the time, here it goes.

This MMO had a really bad start. There are already plenty of MMO on market and they only had to ask around to get a perfect start. So from my point its a bad game design.
About gameplay since this is the most important aspect for me.
Guild Wars 2 combat system + Vanguard crafting system + Final Fantasy Lore = Poor implemntation.
Cross class skill = something original but not enough.
There are so many bad things is this game and this points to one direction -> beginner mistakes.

I dont see a bright future for this game. Server are full now because of the initial rush when everyone wants to be first on 50, first on crafting.
After a month, 50% or more will go away. Its just the hardcore fun base of Final Fantasy lore will stay.

As for the future, there is a revolution in gameplay design thats coming and it will start with Everquest Next.

It's not that this is a struggling MMO launch. This is the SECOND attempt at the same game. They were lucky enough people cared to give it another go, I fear this second failure will dash all the hope the game had.

Because a company that has successfully ran an MMO for 11 years and counting can be classed as beginners?

MMO's are a tough market and sadly mistakes like this can kill a game easily.
"Mistakes were made" (Shadoo)

Yeah, the fact that this is the second launch for this title makes this launch even worse, and while the actual game is great it's one hell of a battle to actually log in and play it . You would have hoped that a company that already went through a horrible experience and owned up to it would have been 100% prepared for this launch but they completely dropped the ball. Anyone that played P4 of the beta probably had a feeling that SE was in trouble and wouldn't have enough time to fix their issues, and looks like they haven't. I haven't been able to log in since wednesday, given I haven't been trying for more than an hour a day, but combined I wasted 5 hours of my life just trying to log in to the game. Unless this turns out to be the best MMO in history I don't see why I'd even consider keeping a sub for this...

FINAL FANTASY: A REALM REBORN...AGAIN (Est 2014)

I'm a developer myself and I've been in the field for 15 years so far and I can tell you they should have done more reserch before starting the second run.