This game is huge! Can you develop a game like this by yourself and play it and update it normally? All in all if you don't like it don't play if you don't have patience, easy don't play. No one has a gun to your head. This is a next gen MMO I expect their to be problems I already felt the game kinda came out quick anyway I was still happy with ffxi.

I like how they implemented a lot of things that we wanted in ffxi at the very beginning. (ex. not having to change gear every time you change a job, being able to run and cast,giving you exp for crafting, Not having to wait around for a party in town if you want exp, the being able to hold 8 linkshells thing is cool and be able to see what everyone is talking about. Yea there's more

So all in all ok the game is beta feeling yea SE should have known better but do you realistically think there not going to fix it your crazy. They want there invested money and you bet there listening to all our feedback and some SE head is getting a lot of crap right now. I bet he can't even sleep with the amount of stress he has from this issue.

So all in all be happy get your crafting up so you can make gils on the ps3 release the game is going to be fine and we will get our update. I'm glad that they are making a search function to make buying and selling items easier that is one of the main problems as we alllll know.

So gosh chill out people it's a deep and complex game that I plan on playing 6-7+ years like i did ffxi. I'm not going anywhere else I enjoy the beautiful original worlds they create, and the whole feel and sound of FF so why go anywhere else? All mmos have problems and we know that if money makes the world go round SE is fixing this game.

I feel like one of the very few who have faith in the company and willing enough to pay through the fixes. >.>;

About the NOV/DEC updates. A lot of people have said they should "flow out weekly". I actually prefer the idea of a full scale update. Why? Cause I feel I'd rather get them all in one and have them all ready for integration in one swoop. I can expect perhaps a bad patch maybe with a few errors, glitches or crashes, instead of it being sprawled across several months when they add something new weekly and something else get's messed up cause of it.

I don't normally care for this type of news, simply because I have faith they will work on it. Maybe that's my own down fall of being gullible. I don't see the point in reading to deeply into it, simply because a majority of companies, regardless of industry, also avoid answering some questions simply because there is no happy answer. Reassurance is the only answer you can give, even though it doesn't satisfy people.

For me, I feel improvements have increased from the beta and then since the opening. For me the most noticeable is the lag is less (but this may simply be to less players but in some areas like market stalls (not retainer wards) and adventure guilds I would have a hellish time waiting for people to pop out of thin air. I also have less crashes randomly (in fact probably none in the last three weeks maybe more) but I do feel small improvements can be made. But I'm not as disappointed as I feel I should be from all the comments I hear. I'm still coming home and loading the game up and spending 4-5 hours on it before bed.

If SE want to make me a beta and use me while I pay the fees to support the finances to improve this game (or whatever) I'm more than happy to. I'd rather give it my support to see it get better, than give up on it. FFXI was my only MMORPG and I played since JAN10 since I heard FFXIV was being made. So maybe I'm not as spoiled as other MMORPG users who have played different games to have a better experience, who knows. But I couldn't stop playing and wait till March, simply because in my view, I can still play this unfinished game and give it the support it needs to improve.

Nobody gives a **** about the PS3 release and it's not gonna do anything for us PC users and I feel like they're using us as beta testers for their console release.

They should actually call this large scale beta testing and not charge monthly until the ps3 version comes out. Don't get me wrong I don't mind paying through the problems, but this would give them enough time to create a final product (hopefully). On that release date re advertise FF14 with statement of it being fixed and get the product re-reviewed with major sites.

1 . hes worried about gaining trust and still holds secrets ????
im pretty sure if your in a relationship with sombody that dosnt really help. he should be spilling his guts about everythign being planned . no more secretsat this point. maybe a yr in then start being secret again . 2 when asked if they even tested the game before relase ?
"Do you test your games to make sure they're complete?" to which Wada admitted, "There may be some areas of testing that were lacking or too rigid,"..yeah thats wada way of saying testing whats this testing you speak of :p lol . how can test a game and thought the ui was good enough that like right in front of your face .

I think the game deserves criticism as well as the loss in subscriptions but i think the "outrage" is extremely unjustified and empty.
Its an incomplete game but everyone agrees the potential is there. Wow fans will stick to WOW and SWTOR fans will play that. I think its a little silly to say that anyone who purchased the game won't give it a second shot within the next year or so, at the very least follow its development. Secondly, anyone that though FFXIV was going to be the end all of mmo's also had unrealistic expectations to begin with and their fury is in proportion to their lack of insight. It'll be niche but not as niche as FFXI was.
This is the rockiest of starts for MMO's propagated by a 2nd wind console launch, poor development-producer communication, and a mid development alpha/beta.
They got a 6 months to fix the game up, no one new or old coming back to the game is gonna care about its poor past as long as what their playing is a smoother more complete experience.

I come to these forums and read peoples outrage and laugh, just another example of how the internet allows people to exacerbate their poor self control.

Related to the subject matter I think SE is handling the situation beautifully and the fact that they're not afraid to admit the game needs work is very promising for those of us who are still playing.

As someone who has invested alot of time into FFXI, I can't help but be dissapointed in FFXIV. I came into this game with high hopes that it would be the MMO i would be playing for the next few years, but now I really don't know if this will be the case.
I'm glad that the developers are planning to address the MANY technical issues that FFXIV suffers from (attrocious targeting and interface, server lag, unbalanced EXP system etc.) because underneath the rough edges there is a really great game. I'm just hoping (fingers crossed) that SE doesnt drop the ball on this game because it has alot of potential.

There's still a lot of undeserved mud-slinging going on over FFXIV's rushed launch, and it's clear Square-Enix are well aware of the issues. This, if nothing else, should serve as proof they will do what is needed to make this game great.

I'd like to remind people that it's Nobuaki Komoto who's the director of this particular game, not Yoichi Wada.

While I'm happy Wada is willing to funnel money into the development of XIV I believe that's all he really is capable of. Wada has never worked as anything else than a producer or as a publisher.

I'm sure his ideas about game design are about as relevant as the janitor's. That might explain the lack of concrete plans in this article.

Hope it works out. Next spring will see the birth of other MMO's like Star Wars The Old Republic. From what I understand that game has a pretty big following.

Also I'm not up to date, but at least let me have hope that the December update brings a Samurai class. I miss my FFXI Job.

The plan is to focus on the quality of the gaming experience and the happiness of the players and have a solid title ready for the PS3 launch.

Is exactly why I am leaving till the ps3 release, maybe at that time they will actually have a solid game, I trully do like the game, but there are just to many flaws to continue playing at this time.