Quote Originally Posted by Allanon View Post
1. FFXI was in a horrible state at launch. When it came to NA it came with an expansion pack. So guys the JP players have now went through this twice with a FFMMO. Lets remember that FFXI was not always a well polished game either.
FFXI was infinitely more polished and complete than FFXIV at launch. It had quests, four times the zones and dungeons, zone progression, fleshed out stories, etc. Within a month, it had NMs and auction house. Within two, it had its first huge rounds of class and experience rebalancing. FFXI was moving at light speed compared to FFXIV.


3. The state of FFXIV was in such a poor state that the new Dev team under Yoshi-P is basically having to re-write the entire game and code from ground up. Any game producer/game code writer will let you know this is no easy task. So expecting alot when basically they are having to start from scratch I think is being unrealistic.
This is FFXIV's biggest dilemma. They can't work fast, because it's now a retail service. They need to go through rigorous planning, testing, QA, etc. to make sure that when they put some feature in, it'll work right off the bat. Alpha and beta phase games don't have to worry too much about this. They can't take the game offline, because they have a bunch of rabid fans to answer to and they'd have to recall every copy that hasn't been sold yet. Not to mention that nobody's going to want to carry their game again when they re-release it.