My predictions were true. Square Enix has **** up, once again. It's what happends when they try to remake the game from the beginning. What a terrible game.AQWBlaZer91

Actually the game itself is quite good and remarkably polished for an MMO at launch. So good, in fact, that the servers are full to bursting, hence why other people can't log in. It's a matter of technical issues, not a matter of the game itself being objectively bad. 

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"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual." -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan

**** patience. If I could get a refund and never log into this game again I would. I am tired of gamers telling me to not act like a customer. If you checked out at the cash register at a store and they took your crap and told you they might give it to you tomorrow, maybe the next day, you would be pissed. Why gamers think this is any different is beyond me. vfibsux

"Crook" implies deliberate dishonesty and/or criminal neglagance. I doubt Yoshi P and his team poured their blood, sweat and tears into remaking this game with the intention of taking your money and offering nothing in return.  I'm sorry you're getting the short end of the stick this launch. I'm not exactly playing the game as much as I'd like either and I can understand the frustration, but MMO's are known for being riddled with technical issues at launch, even with successful and progressive beta testing. 

It's okay to be frustrated and disappointed, but just remember to have some empathy for the people working very hard to make sure you can play this game. You can boycott the game if you want, but you'll be missing out if you do. 

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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan

Basically, it's not just a patched FFXIV, it's a completely new game rebuilt from the ground-up. New combat system, new soundtrack, new questing system (multiple new questing systems, actually), new story, new zones... Hell, it's a completely different engine. 

A Realm Reborn is the brainchild of Naoki Yoshida, who, unlike Nobuaki Komoto, the director of Version 1.0, is actually a big fan of MMO's and plays them regularly. WoW, Tera, Guild Wars, Rift, Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, he's basically done it all. The end result is something that feels like an amalgam of FFXI and verious western MMO conventions, and I don't mean that in a bad way. Unlike other MMO's that try to straight up copy games like Rift and WoW, Yoshida has simply taken a look at all the innovations of western MMO's that would be applicable to both a good MMO and a good Final Fantasy game, applied them, disgarded the rest, and used classic Final Fantasy tropes to make up what's left. 

Materia, class switching and customization, party mechanics and limit breaks, it's all designed to be a huge love-letter to longtime fans of the series while being a good MMO in it's own right. It's definitely a lot more WoWish than FFXI was, but it has a lot of key differences that makes it have more in common with FF in general than WoW. 

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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Muad'dib 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lJoFqfEqY

Doesn't matter to me, but then again I'm agnostic.

Poster is likely one of three things;

1. Oversensetive monotheist.

2. Oversensetive atheist.

3. A troll.

Whichever it is, the answer is no.