Letter from the Producer, XXIV (01/30/2012)

[Zoltan]

It would take long to do when you handle alot of your interface serverside. Messaging for example is a client feature which the only server interaction is sending and receiving it, XIV isn't built to do that which is why they said it won't happen until the new servers are up and running so it can handle doing all of that stuff.

They can add in text commands, but stuff planned for around 2.0 is still going to be released in 2.0.

Still doesn't seem like adding /anon (anonymous) or kicking offline players from a linkshell would be difficult.