come on

[Naunet]

You have to realise that FFXI didn't figure out how to add the /lockstyle command (the name of its glamour system) until roughly 12 years after its very first release (PS2 version for JP, on the 16th of May, 2002).

Flawed argument. Different market back then. Technologies and systems were still being developed in the MMO world. That excuse doesn't fly now; what's more, this isn't Square Enix's first MMO. It's like saying every new car company that crops up has to go through a Model T era before they can be expected to build modern cars.