Thread: FFXIV 2.0 ... or FAILURE 2.0?

I undestand money is needed to continue what must be a very expensive revamp of fundamental game systems. However, I do not think that FFXIV is ready to ask customers for their money, given the current state of the game. The biggest problem here is that the game experience / functionality is simply not ready for primetime.

CASE IN POINT:

• After yesterday's patch, I hopped on and got ready to do a Darkhold run.
• Showed up with full PT, tried to enter instance. Upon entry, was given the old (40000)4 error. My char was now stuck inside Darkhold, unplayable. For the 3rd time since starting FFXIV, a patch had corrupted my game data.
• Attempted to uninstall with a "Catastropic Failure" prohibiting that.
• Manually deleted the FFXIV / My Games directories.
• Tried to reinstall - seemed OK
• After complete reinstall, redownload of patch data, the updater failed at the last moment with 20564 (another indication of a corrupted patch attempt).
• Tried to uninstall. Uninstall failed again.
• This time, I could not reinstall or uninstall, I was stuck, with no recourse or path to take to try to get the game working again.

Because I am an IT person, I manually searched the registry, deleted all the keys referencing FFXIV, and successfully reinstalled. The average user, however, cannot be expected to this.

Fundamental features like an updater MUST work before expecting average users to pay money for a game. Therefore, they can try to take people's money, but I predict FAILURE 2.0 instead of FFXIV 2.0.