Quote Originally Posted by afk4life View Post
I don't know what the stance on WoW is on this board but I'm going to assume it's neutral. While WoW was simple, it was also extremely fluid and excelled at what it was supposed to excel at.From FFXIV's 2.0 mission statement it still feels like one big overambitious project.
Calling 2.0 overambitious is an understatement. The way SE originally plugged it you'd think that it would fix every possible problem people have that it's surprising they didn't include it would run for public office to help fix your actual life too. I think 2.0 (or a Realm Reborn) is going to be very much the same game we have now. There is no reason why they couldn't implement all the fixes to the problems ARR is supposed to address in the CURRENT client. People think that something about the game prevents them from doing this?

FFXIV was such a disaster when first launched that I see little hope of it's revile. Indeed dropping FFXIV from the title would likely help a lot. Any connection to that name should best be avoided. How successful a launch a product has determines it's future. Attempting to "relaunch it" won't help because people aren't going to give a second look at it. They've been burned once, they aren't going to stick their hand into the fire again.