I've played well over 20 MMOs and online games and every single one has had a patch or update system that has worked decently.

FFXIV's still doesn't work. Its like a random rollercoaster ride, sometimes hitting 300+kb/s and other times staying at 0 kb/s for 20min+.
It's never clear whats going on, it randomly freezes at certain values for long periods of time, and even trying to download via torrent is often slow.

Now I'm sure there are lots of techhy ways to fix the problems, but this is an MMO.... not a geekfest. If an MMO can't even have a functional update system then how can it expect to compete.

I seriously hope SE fixes this problem before they release the game on PS3 and have a new marketing campaign.