"Our MMO launched flawlessly on day 1, we've never pushed the dates back and we've got uncrashable servers for our 250,000 player base."
-said no company EVER.

FFXIV is not FFXI and it's not WoW, it's a nice blend of all the things we like. Best of all it doesn't suck, it's got a developed storyline and it's not a pointless grindfest leading to nowhere endgame. It's unique, it's fun and it's obviously attractive to hundreds of thousands of players who desperately want to log-in. This is next level success for SE, let's be happy for them and look forward to expansion packs full of endgame content (just like their previous MMO).

For the Haters:

I understand your obsessed with the game and want to play it so bad that it makes you angry when you can't.

That being said, you might want to calm down and realize this is how MMORPG games work in the first few weeks of release. WoW crashed every day, multiple times a day and had hideous bugs for MONTHS to come.

-Light