Dear SE and Yoshi-P
I really enjoy playing this game. I started at launch, hated it, shelved it until about three months ago, and since coming back haven't been able to put it down. So many things about it are so great, and it's a complete 180 into the other direction from where it was 2-3 years ago.
However, I feel like perhaps you are starting to rush content in hopes of keeping subscriptions. It will hurt you in the long run.
So my request is simple: Do not release untested content that has not had player feedback and is not in its final form. Personal housing is terrible. The hunts are terrible. The PvP queue is terrible. Chocobo raising is terrible. All of these things could be avoided by
1. Open up a test server. Have your players actually test the content. I guarantee you 95% of these blunders will be avoided.
2. Actually listen to what the players are telling you. Yes we wanted open world content, no we didn't want 10 more Odins or markless FATEs.
3. Re-open that dialogue. You're kind of getting complacent and it shows. An emergency patch for issues that could have absolutely been avoided is unprofessional. Add to that the fact that the patch is just going to add MORE issues (whose brilliant idea is it to make party leaders MANUALLY add new players when they drop? Shouldn't every player be focusing on the PvP game itself and not filling up parties? Isn't that why we have a tool?)
All in all, I think that you need to take a few steps back and really look at what you are doing. This is a sloppy patch and much of the content is out of reach for the bulk of your playerbase (I won't even get into how rock stupid the chocobo "raising" is). Calm down a little bit and look at what you are adding. Variety is nice, but I think that most players would agree that we would rather have polished, playable content than a huge patch of half-implemented random things that may or may not be fixed in the future. Swallow your pride and go back to the vision you had when the game failed, because a few more patches like this and you will be back on the same road.