Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Yukiko]

If it truly was so good then why does ARR exists?
No dev in their right mind would remake a whole game if it wasn't a disaster they tried to fix. Otherwise a couple big patches would have fixed it.

Many players helped them with solutions and ideas to fix it, but mostly the answer of SE was:
The game engine does not allow us to do so, because...

They were too focused on the "remake" thing, they havnt even tryed to fix something...
Mostly with the words: "in 2.0 all will be better"

Edit: Well not really true, because they tryed to help us against RNG with adding garuda tokens 100% and skirmish loot... and some other stuff, that all vanished in 2.0

[Lemuria]

Many players helped them with solutions and ideas to fix it, but mostly the answer of SE was:
The game engine does not allow us to do so, because...

They were too focused on the "remake" thing, they havnt even tryed to fix something...
Mostly with the words: "in 2.0 all will be better"

To be fair, it was more of a rebranding. FFXIV 1.0 had a stigma attached to it which it wasn't going to shake off easily. It needed to be remade and rebranded in order to become anything remotely successful.

I don't begrudge their decision. I miss the good parts of 1.0, sure, but I can understand why they needed to do what they did. I just wish they'd kept their eyes on the prize the whole time and remodeled old ideas rather than destroying them entirely.