Square-Enix working hard to "regain trust" with players and investors

But it is suppose to get better with the PlayStation 3's release of the game (can we say cut and paste for the PC version again). At least the specification requirements might be lowered by that time.

Hey, when it releases on PS3, the one thing we're guaranteed not to hear about is how the controls suck. :D

Can't tell if that's sarcastic or not considering the issues people are talking about now are the SAME issues we were bringing up for over 4 months during the Beta.

it was indeed sarcasm. Especially due to the bugs the game has that carried over from beta. I said to my linkshell members in Final Fantasy XI (most of them left) that I would not trust Square Enix with another MMO.

Uh oh I peeved off some of the fan hounds for being sarcastic boohoo. That doesn't fix the mess Square Enix made.

Heh, I've been saying this for years. SE never listened to their players in FF11, and have a history of releasing half-finished products with no real content (e.g. Wings of the Goddess), so I don't know why anyone is surprised at the mess that they've made of FF14. Anyone with half a brain who had played FF11 for long enough could see this coming miles off.

The people running SE are idiots. FF11 had the potential to be a far bigger game than it was if they had taken any notice of their players concerns about some of the more obvious gameplay flaws. In many ways it was a superior game to WoW, but too much of the endgame was just a tedious repetitive timesink that was dominated by cheats and botters, and that just wasn't fun. But no, SE is always right and they know better than their customers.

Well now they're really reaping what they sowed, and they richly deserve all the flak they're getting. I bet they still won't listen to their customers, but they might take some notice of their investors.

Square-Enix. Free-to-play?

No. They don't even think that far. If they don't profit from it they will end all development and never try it again.

See Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Saying FF14 is like FF 11 is an insult to FF 11...

Final Fantasy 11 never assumed its playerbase was a blithering group of idiots who need to be told to switch classes and when. Final Fantasy 11 actually has an auction house. Final Fantasy 11 at least managed to keep my interest throughout a full trial. Oh, they also never said you can only do 8 quests every two days either.

Yeah, 14 is far beneath even the worst points of 11.

Actually, it was almost 2 months after launch until the AH was added :P

But but it carries the Final Fantasy name brand. We just knew people would swarm the game because it is a triple A title game from Square Enix. When it's them they don't have to worry about their players threatening to leave and never return.