It say you will get instant items on preorder?!? Well?

[Bun_Vivant]

Square just needs to learn how to allocate funds properly more than anything. This could all be smoother if they were actually using all of the profits from 14 to improve the game and the systems surrounding it instead of funneling into other projects or NFTs.

It's worth remembering that FFXIV only exists today because Square Enix took profits from other games and used those profits first to develop FFXIV v.1, and then to rebuild the game as ARR after v1 failed spectacularly. If they'd followed then the policy you're recommending now, there'd be no FFXIV and no profits to argue about.

What SE is doing now with portions of FFXIV's profits could be viewed as simply repaying a debt or providing a return on investment.