Final Fantasy XIV Version 2.0 Coming Winter 2012

Seems Square is damned determined to milk their fan base as much as they can. I won't be surprised if they start to become like Valve with Left 4 Dead 2 where they release something broke, try to fix it, and then wind up breaking more stuff with the patches. Can the players of Final Fantasy XIV really wait a whole year for this game to be fixed?

I believe every MMO has a sort of plateau structure in terms of quality of the game over time, where it is only a matter of time and money before it reaches what is pretty much the best it can ever hope to be. At least they seem committed to reaching that level. Many MMOs just run out of money and say **** it.

Being committed to reaching that level isn't always a good thing. Especially when you're already hemorrhaging money like Squareenix has been. Even when they reach that plateau, there's no saying the game will be successful enough to recoup their losses. I mean, at this point they have sunk the cost of development, and now also the cost of maintaining these servers since launch, all without any revenue. Even IF they get the game to a point where it's plateaued, will it make enough money to recoup all these costs?

It's still one of the best looking mmo's out there today. If they manage to fix the rest of the game and bring it up to the level of the graphics, I think they can still be moderately successful with it. Then again, 2013 is a long ways off. They will have to put the marketing team in high gear to build interest in it again at that time.

P.S. I'm one of the few that didn't hate xiii.

I don't hate FF XIII, since I never played it.