Quote Originally Posted by frostmagemari View Post
Most MMO companies are able to release both content patches -and- bug fix patches without throwing the whole game into disarray, the fact that Square-Enix doesn't seem to have this capability is rather sad.
They do, there have been many bug fix patches. There's bug fixes in the maintenance tomorrow.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...81a74513a151d3

You can question the decision not to include this as a hot fix, but the process they have seems fairly sound to me from a development perspective.