People get so worried about this, but do they ever stop to think what the game could even accomplish if those 'limitations' weren't there? There's many PC-only MMO's, and none of them, despite the lack of limitations, go out of their way to innovate or take advantage of it. XIV has much more freedom than XI did in this sense, but it didn't make leaps and bounds ahead to take advantage of that situation.

Even if consoles did hold the game back, it wouldn't be from anything that'd make the game that much better anyway. Plus, it's not like they plan to back down on it. Xbox One might join in, and the Nintendo NX is up for consideration as well.