Calm down OP, it takes time to develop, especially for an MMO and especially for one with the high quality visuals of FFXIV. I remember seeing a feature on GoW3 that said it took them weeks to create what used to take 5 days on the PS2. Now expand that to the huge amount of content you need for an MMO, and you can imagine the time it takes. Balancing considerations are also important, since just rushing something out without balancing it means a lot more time spent afterwards re-balancing it, and an angry user base for releasing unpolished content.

Be patient, enjoy the fact that you're not actually paying a monthly fee while you wait, and enjoy it when it comes out. I realize the team's under a lot of stress and doing the best they can, so I'm not directing any of my frustrations at them . There's plenty of that to go around on some of the ridiculous demands some of the players make on this forum =P.