well the downside is... they have to basically do a complete overhaul on the game, rebuilding it from the ground up. This task is hard enough on it's own, but then you add having to run live servers with uppity customers (myself included) and you got such a storm of crap that it turns into a shitnami. Multiply all this with the fact that the engine they use to build the game is nearly worthless and you got a clusterf*** of epic proportions.

Sure XI is pretty good now, but it had the same issues XIV is having now, it is a shame that the XIV team didn't learn from the mistakes of their predecessors but thems the breaks. XIV is effectively reverted to a beta status and this stings a bit as we still are playing for the game with our initial purchase. Sure a bit more information, maybe even a small daily dev blog would be nice, help us see the progress they are making without taking up to much of their time.

It has to be said however, that if the major issue with a game is that there isn't enough of it... well that's a helluva lot better of a problem than some I can think of.