Hmm no flames yet? Is everyone from the hardcore thread asleep already? Haha.

I majorly disagree with your central point. We are not beta testers. A lot of people feel lied to or robbed. Square Enix could give them their money back and that's the only thing they could do to shut those type of people up.

I'd say we're playing an Alpha version of FFXIV that we paid for. We're not testers, we're players who have paid for this game. Nothing in this game has really changed since Alpha.

So I'd say to readers: are you happy to play an Alpha version for now? If not see you next time, if so, great. One major point is that the dev team is not focused on delivering hardcore content - they are focused on fixing a broken game. So I'd like to see people's perspectives change on that. The dev team is not servicing the loyal fans - they are fixing the broken game.