It sad but true that I'm kind of agree with starter.
Before earthquake, I played only FFXIV.
But while they closed server due to earthquake event, I tried Rift, and it hit me... hard. Hard enough to stop playing FFXIV after that time.

I'm not raise topic about Rift game to invite people to play, but I would like to raise the "professional" of Trion team.
Rift is the sample of this era MMO's should be. Use general term, few bugs, meaningful launcher, fun-to-do quest, super fast new content and etc.

I know that FFXIV struggle to fix their old bug and broken system before they ready to launch new content into game. But.. yeah... their time was shorten everyday. Last post of Yoshi-P is like they excuse and sorry for delay due to golden week in JP... that no one work..

SE in last couple years didn't do great job for their flagship games.. I played FF13 for 2 hours and stop forever.
Also didn't finish other title they released so far.

Sign, only thing that FFXIV is strong is "most detailed graphic"... that's all