Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
This without mentioning that, so far, GW2 looks a lot like a clone of the many MMOs already out nowadays. if I want to play another clone, I'll play one of those. FFXIV has the potential not to be like that, which is already a big boon by itself in an extremely stagnant market.
Correct. FFXIV has the skeleton/foundation to be better than any game on the market. This can only happen, however, if SE is devoting the necessary financial resources to precipitate these developments.

I don't see any evidence that the necessary support required for this has been given to the development team in the form of doubling, tripling, or quadrupling staff numbers and boosting the development budget.

Perhaps a dev rep can give us some concrete numbers?