It's not just Kotaku. Just drop "Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn" on Google and all the gaming sites that are coming up aren't giving very nice review about it. Of course gaming media is interested on it because of the last fiasco and this really doesn't look good. I've had my share on EA, and had fun but damn SE, get your shit together.

By the way, SE made a new minigame: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZF0cvJhQgA