Did squenix make a mistake by investing too much in graphics and not enough in

[Rydin]

They may require monster systems to be maxed out, but my PC that pumps witcher 2's beautiful environments at 45 fps on medium settings will choke on FFXIV if more than 3 people are on screen.

Yea... but there is a certain type of person that wants to run maxed settings with the min requirements....
and gets mad at the game when their card can't do 2560x1600 with 16xaa

Also the idea that a MMO may not have action based gameplay is as stupid as saying that JRPGs may only have menu based combat. Technical or design limitations may have limited gameplay to slow, uninvolving gameplay in the genre's early years but there is no reason why it should stay that way forever.

for the record, I don't have a problem with action based gameplay in an MMO... I'm guessing that part wasn't aimed at me.. but just sayin....