It's pathetic how many people in this thread seem to think that someone being paid to do a job means they do that job well. Those people must have very little life experience, or they'd know better.

I paid a subscription for years to experience SWTOR going from a game with eight great story lines that was fun to play to a game with one boring story line that was frustrating because of the unfixed game-stopping bugs, dev flip-flops, and cash-shop shenanigans.
The developers that did that to SWTOR were paid.
I have never and will never thank them for their efforts.

The developers that bring us FFXIV, however, I will thank.
They keep providing a game I enjoy playing, and they keep improving that game.
People like me with extensive complex software implementation experience in a team environment know that that's a hard-won accomplishment.
We know from personal experience that even software developers being paid six-figure US$ salaries often suck, and that even one bad coder can ruin an entire team's efforts.
The FFXIV devs have, in the main, overcome that and many other obstacles to bring me this game, and in terms of money spent per hour of enjoyment, it's the most cost-effective entertainment I've ever bought.

So thank you, Creative Business Unit 3.
Please ignore all the insults that the haters in the EN forums heap on you.
You provide something that brings joy to and is well-loved by a great many people.
Only a relatively small number of people can claim to have done that,
and I doubt that many, if any, of your detractors are among them.