Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
Expecting design to be perfect right out of the door is too much asked. Quality control means getting rid of bugs. At the end of the day, as long as the design is only slightly off it's going right as planned. We are here to help them take care of the details, but they themselves need to get the big picture right. No developer is perfect, but perfection can be attained with good use of external assistance.

There will be design issues regardless, but instead of thinking too much about the details by themselves they are making us do the work for them. It is significantly more efficient that way.
You're right, but it could be argued that if this is their intention (to deliver us an idea and have us work out the kinks), then why the F dont we have a separate test server? This is why MMOs have test servers, so the community can help test the freshest content out and provide live feedback straight to the dev's emails.

FFXI got one, here's to hoping they are working on one for FFXIV. =|