Sucks that the pouplation is thining!

[Xatsh]

I assume you never played the initial release of FFXI in '02. You probably picked it up after its release in NA ('04) or EU ('05), in which case it was already 2 years old and had one full expansion (NA, Zilart) or two (EU, CoP), so what you expected in FFXIV was based on a totally wrong view of what FFXI was at this stage of its life and many, mnay months afterwards.

There is a difference.

XI took 8-12 months (more for the casuals) to do everything at launch due the content design.

XIV takes 1-2 months.

IF you are going to have a game focused on casual content you need a whole lot more of it.