I remain very very optimistic, I mean it is Square and they been making games I like for many years. And they made the only mmo besides EQ that I really liked enough to play for more then 4-5 months at a time.

I would be far less optimistic if they where some no name garbage company that failed the first big thing they tried to produce. Or if their other ff mmo wasn't one of the worlds longest lived and highly successful mmos. They proved they have the ability to make a good mmo to me.

What I see is an unfinished product, a game that needed 1-2 years more development. But I see a greater potential in this game then I see in many of the other mmos out there atm, that potential is just going to take along time to be realized.

SE is a monster of a game company with enough funds to actually do the drastic revamps needed. Atm Wada made it a main goal of the new fiscal year to revive the game and the major changes that Yoshida was brought in to do, and all their work the last 3-4 months is being released soon. If you are not at least somewhat optimistic or at the very least hoping it will turn out to be great... you should probably just leave the game for good.

I am giving SE until ps3 release, if the game fails that release... whether I like it or not I will have to leave at that point.