I think the phrase "you can't polish a turd" may well apply to FFXIV.
I'm not convinced sending in a relief team to clean up all the mistakes will save the game any more than I'm convinced that even if it were possible, that the negative PR already attached to this title from both critical and user feedback can be overlooked or forgotten.
It is a poor reflection on a major developer when they allow such an important product to go on for as long as it did in the development pipeline without anyone noticing any of the blaring missteps that were uncovered the day the game was released. Or maybe they just didn't care. Either way, you just can't expect people to pay for something like that and you definitely can't expect them to keep subscribing to it.
