Quote Originally Posted by Swev View Post
Reminds me of what happened to Vanguard from sony. Though their problem was dev teams lack of interest for game and people wanted to play it, but was too buggy and lacked patches with more end game content. So who knows whats going to happen, but so far they been patching every month with FFXIV so its more then what some games companies do when the game dont cut it.
While it's nice that they are attempting to patch issues, this is also part of the problem. If they just let the game die after everyone jumped ship I don't believe it would have caused as much damage to their reputation as this game is going to eventually.

Mainly because there are just so many things wrong with the game, and to say patches are being released in a slow manner is being very generous and polite. As it stands it is well over 6 months of being released, and let's be honest, nothing of substance has been released besides basic bug fixes. Just the fact that 1.18 looks so promising is sad itself when the major addition is auto-attack... Stop and think about that for a moment... Auto-attack... Auto-attack should have been implemented in a week, now you actually have people looking forward to it and praising it almost a year later. You can chalk this up to coding or management all you like, SE however is a company that has more than enough resources to have done this in a timely manner.

That's my point, with the kind of resources SE has at their disposal, that is simply unacceptable. I find that more a slap in the face as a fan and consumer. If you don't want to do something, don't do it. I personally would much rather that than how it seems it is being done half-heartedly. They really needed to pull out all the stops to salvage this game, instead they put a new dev team with better PR in place. I feel bad for Yoshi and the new team. While you may be able to climb Mount Everest with a small backpack and one friend, your chances are grim at best.