The mail system terrifies me. I can only imagine the crapstorm of gil bought and sold on the internet when that system goes live.

As far as the art goes, if new things are indeed being modelled/retextured, post some screenshots. Give us something to get excited about.

One other thing. That awesome bubble spell that is shown multiple times in rendered videos? Where the heck is that? If the game was 1/10th as cool as it was in the those videos, I'd have nothing to say.