I have seen so many people argue that it's alright to upset current players or ignore the needs of the current playerbase because the game is an "extended beta." Different people argue different things but there seems to be this common notion that the game is being designed to sell at PS3 launch and until then we should just accept that the game is a beta.

Personally, i think any completed game that is sold in a store is -not- a beta.
Further I don't completely understand the argument that the game is a beta since they are changing things a lot. This is an MMO, and MMO's change... A LOT.... FFXI changed A LOT over the years (-cough- drg -cough-)

I was wondering if any of the devs have ever expressed their thoughts on this in interviews, and what other people's thoughts are.