I think SE are a bit touched - I mean - out of touch.

There is a whole lot of work left to make this game respectable in a competitive market. And I dont think they quite realise that if they released the game now a year after release, it would still flop.

Ragnorak 2 is getting slammed for exactly the same reasons FFXIV was getting slammed for (and its still in beta phase!), and at least Ragnorak 2 has a FAST User Interface, albeit a weird one (but certainly no weirder than FFXIV's UI).

I just dont see how FFXIV expects to climb out of the grave it dug for itself when almost ALL the same problems that haunted the release are still present now (except for software mouse).