Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie View Post
At least they've learned from Tanaka not to set a hard deadline and force themselves to deliver an unpolished turd.
Polish is one thing, and certainly the lack thereof was responsible for FFXIV's original failing. I mean, after all, you couldn't even gain experience points properly on release, there weren't even any boss monsters. The game was very devoid of content, and lacking in basic elements (to this day, menu lag persists).

But polish is one thing, game design is another. The reception so far to FFXIV ARR on the internet has been so lukewarm, and not purely because of the bad impression it made originally, but also because it's not really advertising itself as anything even remotely interesting. I mean, it will be a leg-up on the original in terms of polish (probably), but what else? "make friends" i think was its selling point in the previous trailer. Might as well have just said "this is an MMO" for all that's worth.

Hopefully they update the website with all the stuff they have yet to disclose (which Im presuming there must be a lot of... because surely what we've heard so far can't even be remotely all there is).