The Question would be how to make people happy, because people are pissed for opposite reasons.

Half the people are rage quitting because it is not XI, half because it is not WoW.

Some say the game is way to easy with nothing that gives the feeling of accomplishment, some say it is nothing but a horrible grind with to many time sinks and it lack everything that is casual.

SE needs to try to make as many people happy without driving away their fanbase that is still watching/playing the game. The game cannot survive without the fanbase support... its image is too tarnished to attract enough mainstream players now.

Ask anyone who plays mmos but are not playing XIV what are you waiting more for GW2 or the revamped XIV.... I bet 49/50 of those people say GW2. Why would SE design the game for the portion of the fanbase that will just bail... How many tro...Disgruntled players(sorry) keep posting I can't wait for Tera/GW2/ToR to come out. Why should SE make a game for someone who will not stay anyways.

Square cannot afford to lose the FF fanboys, but probably cannot afford to lose all of the mainstream genre players either. But I would say atm the potential subs is much higher in the fanboys category then mainstream... even if mainstream outnumbers the FF fanboys 50 to 1.

In short SE cannot make this FFXI-2 they cannot make this WoW-2.... in both those cases the game will fail. It has to make the existing and lost fanbase happy, and then try to get some of the mainstream.