Tweaking of lore and general gameplay ideas...

[Allistar]

IMO I don't think Yoshi-p and his crew thought ARR was going to do as well as they thought...and I say this because looking at the game, time seemed to stop at level 50. Everything was treated as end-game even though it never truly felt like it. The piecemeal updates and additions felt almost as if we were being baited to see if we'd continue playing. Of course not everything worked for all involved, but there was something for everyone.
And now with the release of the expansion, will we see some thing tidied and cleaned to make 2.0 a bit more streamlined, restructure some of the gears, and dungeons and the way the storyline has paced up until now especially if we're going to have the Au Ra in game, how will that be explained considering Yugiri's unwillingness to reveal her identity when she was introduced. How about the rogues guild and can that be woven into the storyline earlier than when we get introduced to them...can we fix thancred's dual jobs, is he a rog or pld, considering our re-introduction to him outside ul'dah, where it seems he's using pld job abilities, but then later on both him and Yugiri are using rog/nin job abilities.

Anyone else feel as if there are some subtle changes that can be made???

[WellFooled]

There are changes that could be made to smooth over some wrinkles, but I don't think most of the changes you brought up need to be made.

if we're going to have the Au Ra in game, how will that be explained considering Yugiri's unwillingness to reveal her identity when she was introduced.

If I remember correctly, she never said it was her race that caused her to hide her face (after all, her race is clearly evident by her tail), but her excuse was something like 'it might cause people undue distress'. She may have meant her race, she may have thought that she personally might be recognized, or maybe she was lying. Life is messy. Even if she did mean her race, all MMORPGs have oddities when it comes to their timelines. An Au'ra player participating in storyline that predates Au'ra coming to Eorzea is just a part of that.

can we fix thancred's dual jobs, is he a rog or pld

Does he need to be one or the other? In game and in real life people can have many different skill sets.

will we see some thing tidied and cleaned to make 2.0 a bit more streamlined, restructure some of the gears, and dungeons and the way the storyline has paced up until now

Are there any specific things you had in mind regarding the restructure of 2.0 gear and dungeons?

[Haibel]

The game was always planned to have a maximum lvl of 100 all the way back from inception. Part of the reason endgame never really felt like end game is because it's not the end of the game. we are just now getting back to something similar the original story the game was suppose to have.

[Pence]

I don't think anything about Yugiri needs to be changed, as stated above she never said it was due to her race.

Let's pretend you are new in a year or so, starting as an Au Ra. You go through the story with no knowledge that Au Ra was previously unplayable. What would you think about Yugiri? Probably that she's not confident with her own appearance. Simple problems, simple solutions.

The game was always planned to have a maximum lvl of 100 all the way back from inception. Part of the reason endgame never really felt like end game is because it's not the end of the game. we are just now getting back to something similar the original story the game was suppose to have.

Never heard any of this before, and I'm pretty confident we're not walking into 'suppose to be' territory.