Clearly the players who log in day in and day out are here to stay. We have shown the loyalty that most companies would kill for. One thing holding FFXIV back currently is the rate of changes. Many times I see "We'll look into it, we'll have a focus group and test the changes internally, we'll then put it to our private test servers and see if it imbalances other parts of the game, then we might push out the changes to production.." This mentality needs to stop NOW. SE no longer has the luxury of sitting around holding back progress worried about game balance. Trust me the game is not balanced now, I can go out and THM solo what is supposed to be the toughest NM out there /cough dodore.

<DEV: request to push out changes which still need future balancing and testing>

Let the largest group of free testers have at your newest changes and ideas. I'm not suggesting that SE needs to dump every single half brained idea out there but rather they speed the development cycle along giving us a chance to share the burden of new content sooner. So many things need fixing I would gladly deal with some glitches and imbalances in favor of faster larger changes. Especially when dealing with battle content/sp balancing/party mechanics/job traits/job skills

This would serve a dual purpose, not only would we see changes sooner which would make everyone happy it would help bring a transparency to the future direction and changes.