Who is this game targeting?

[Aerostein]

The target audience is everyone.

If that's their target audience, that's a problem imo. Any time you spread your resources that thin for so many, you're going to be severely lacking. Sure, they may pull some in, but people with even realistic expectations may be left feeling very unsatisfied. Myself included.

So much this. It feels like they are reusing a lot of the janky 1.0 architecture in a lot of systems the game uses, to the point where we cant have even the more basic staples of a current gen MMO. 2.1 is just a ketchup patch, while being a lot of stuff we should have had at launch, a good chunk of it is features that quite frankly should have been here at launch to ease & help the players out. Realizing this, my enthusiasm for the patch is pretty low since even F2P MMO's have launched with more.

So much this, as well. Agreed wholeheartedly. I want to love the game, but it is very lacking in many areas.
I especially like the fan boys who try to claim this game has had the most content at launch since WoW. In actuality, much closer to the opposite IMHO.

If they want to delude others and themselves, that's their business but some people know better.