did we ever get a flood of information?

[Cynthis]

If you're using the main website as your source for everything, then I can understand your frustration. Since the website didn't include 1/10th of the information that has been released so far. HOWEVER, the fault doesn't simply belong to SE alone, if you(general term, not directed at a certain person) didn't attempt to keep track of all the promotions they have been doing with dev interview, live letter, LFTPs, the bajillion interviews they did since E3.

They touched on almost all the topics you listed, I'm using "touched" because of course they didn't give us detailed information that explains it from the ground up. But, how could you expect that? there job is to entice us by giving us just enough information that fuels our interest and the rest will be on us to experience in-game.

Oh I read every single thread here and everyone of Reinhart's excellent translations. Last week I caught myself reading it at work as he was typing it. I suppose it's better than my boss catching me... My point about the website was a) Why set it up and not use it and b) why not collect information as it is presented in one place.

I'm not even asking for detailed information but just what will be available and roughly when. I have gone from thinking that the following at a minimum would be available on 2.0 release:

Free Companies
Chocobo raising
Housing
PvP
Crystal Tower

to reading all kinds of vague statements in the interviews making me think that only a basic implementation of Free Companies and (some of) Crystal Tower will be available. Up until last weeks interviews I was sure Chocobo raising would be in the release of 2.0 only to read the following nugget of a non-answer in Reinhart's translation of the interview:

Just confirmation but for the Chocobo raising system, this will be available from the launch of ARR FFXIV correct?
Y: Development team is working hard. I’ve been scolded that the “Cost is too high!” (laugh)

Seriously! If they don't know the answer to this then the release is quite far into the future or I am very very frightened about the content of 2.0.