Will FFXIV's failure be a key to it's success?

[Mack]

All possible, but not possible with the current team. They are to slow right now and because of this it will always be behind other MMO's for a very long time.

But in 3-4 year sit could be good, if something else doesn't come out then.

You wont know if this team is "too slow" until the end of the summer. You think picking up the slack on a half finished game is quick and easy? the conception of what they have to do moving forward takes some work and it needs to be done right. I'm willing to bet they've probably been testing and tweaking the battle system for the last two months now along with whatever new content they have. The new team may be small, which will hinder its progress, but we don't know if its "slow" until we see what they give us here soon. End of the summer is do or die for this game and sometimes I log in and I think "do!" and other times I think "its already dead what the hell is gonna save it!"....but i always log back in. God help me.