Quote Originally Posted by Lampy View Post
Unfortunately, this is the problem, it shouldn't be in development. It should be fully developed, full of content, crisp and ready to keep the player base interested. Instead, its just plain boring, full of bugs, the whole system is just developed from a "FFXI wasn't quite as successful as we hoped, so we will do it all different" view point. People can stand by the "Hey Guyzzzzzzz, its only just released, stuff will come yeaaaaaaa" view all they want, but thats just a pathetic excuse.

SE slacked major, i resent them so much because i was passionate about getting that magical feeling i did when i first played FFXI, no i didn't want a clone, or FFXI 2.0, i wanted a beautifully created square-enix story and environment. No just a, hey look, lets race to get rank 50!!!! which is all the game as it terms of content atm.
While I don't disagree that SE made several major blunders with FFXIV, the first paragraph is just catastrophically wrong. An MMO is NEVER fully developed. It's also very, very common for major features to be missing at launch. Examples: City of Heroes was missing the last 10 levels of the game at launch; World of Warcraft had no major raids at launch; Warhammer was missing entire cities and classes.