I'm optimistic. I've felt for a long time the game has potential, and there are a lot of little details that clearly show a lot of dedication on the part of the developers. The way the Cactaur move for example. They really seem like ambulatory cactus's. There are lots of things like that in XIV, so I think they have the talent and dedication on staff to make it first rate. I'm admittedly not a person who expects an MMO to be anything but a diamond in the rough at launch. If anything the really long running MMO seem to launch with issues, and then correct them. Perhaps because in so doing the game ends up being more tailored to its player base. SE's big mistake was not polishing the game for another 6 months. I think if the game had launched at the 1.16 patch level it wouldn't have been panned as much.