I really hope this was just a prank of some sort. While I'm not about to grab my pitchfork and a torch yet, if they make me wait this long to return I'll have no doubt found another game. I'm counting on this game to be released in early 2013 but if we need to wait until the middle of the year I'll probably be looking elsewhere for a new game. And I know I'm not the only one that would be going that route. Who wants to wait nearly seven to eight months to pick up where they left off again? By this time new and more promising games will have surfaced and are bound to catch a former FFXIV player's attention.

You can be as hardcore as you want but it's bound and likely to happen. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be so impatient I want a half-finished product yet again. But over a half a year's wait is a very long time and the average gamer these days doesn't have the patience to wait that long.