Quote Originally Posted by Enfarious View Post
It's nice to see someone else realizes that FFXI didn't start w/ everything already in place.

Most US and even more so EU players didn't see the game before CoP was released, which is also a factor in the "alot to do" arguments. When the game was released to the world at large the first expansion was already out, and CoP was all but hitting shelves.
This just begs the question, "If you're professionals, why release an unfinished product (again) when you know you're just going to put hundreds of thousands of nails in the game's coffin resulting in it being buried alive, prematurely?"