SE will not let me Pre order a collector's edition

[BreathlessTao]

better solution would be SE fixing their bullcrap system. . .

This. On multiple levels.

Take a look at forum here: pointless, stupid character and post limits - none of them doing any good but at least punishing those who mean no harm.
Take a look at the game itself: sticking to bad design ideas (cash shop, housing, overuse of RNG, etc), the unholy trinity of "hardware restrictions / infrastructure restrictions / small dev team" excuses - time and time again issues are pointed out, SE goes ahead with whatever anyway, we're still feeling like they aren't actually investing money in the game, just put enough in it so that the basics can be done not to make the game feel (too) stale for (too) long.
Take a look at the online store: this massive sh××storm that's happened - and with the EU store only, JP and NA didn't face such huge issues from what I heard. Not to even mention the pricing for the UK.
And then the whole account management and region locking they have in place - has been awkward and cumbersome and confusing even in 1.0, and hasn't improved much since then (if at all).

Dunno about others, but to me, just listing these feels like crumbling under the weight of all the obsolete/bad systems SE should be fixing....


(This has been another non-spam post not in any way helped by the character limit.)

[DragonFlyy]

Take a look at the game itself: sticking to bad design ideas (cash shop, housing, overuse of RNG, etc),

Cash shop is purely cosmetic, it does not give you any in game advantage and is in no way required to play.
Housing is a bad design? Is that why it's so popular in this and many other MMOs??
RNG is the staple of gaming. I agree that there should be something new, but until someone comes up with a good system, it's pretty much going to stay (it's in the majority of games in the world ... not just MMOs).

[Viridiana]

Housing is a bad design? Is that why it's so popular in this and many other MMOs??

I suspect he was referring to the particulars of how it was implemented here. Every world gets the same number of houses despite very different levels of demand instead of, say, instanced housing. Personal housing competing with FC housing (and costing the same, to boot). Things like chocobo dying being gated behind housing for no adequately explained reason. . .