Remember the arguments during beta?

[Naunet]

You have no clue who left or why.

[Alipoprocks]

You have no clue who left or why.

I am quite sure I have at the very least a clue. Along with anyone else who plays games for years.

[Kule]

I have a feeling over time you'll get the more expansive content you're after. If you look at it this way, they rebuilt the game in 2-3 years with a new engine.. they were crunching that deadline the whole time and the reason so many assets were ripped from FFXI/FFXII.

The reason we're getting these big 0.1, 0.2,etc updates is because they themselves know the game was released barebones but if they waited another year or two to finish it, way more people would have lost interest.

Also at the time of remaking FFXIV blizzard were originally expecting their next mmo to be released for 2015 but have since scrapped it and started over.

So you can see why SE worked as fast as they did and cut a lot of corners.

Kinda tired so I hope that makes sense