Personally, I think FFXIV is a sinking ship and you wasted $5 on that game.
I'm not saying it can't be fixed, I'm saying it doesn't matter. A new team will only help so much and the damage has already been done. The game has been (rightly) destroyed by critics and is skating on incredibly thin ice. They basically have until March and if the game is still in shambles by the time it releases on PS3, the servers will be closed by the end of the year.
If they do manage to turn the game around by the time the PS3 version releases, then it could be a fun game but, like I said, the damage has been done. The game already has a pretty negative following from everyone except only the most die hard fans and even those are quitting.
The new director can throw out buzz words all he likes but we'll see how well they're implemented come March. FFXIV was easily the worst game of 2010 but, hey, at least you don't have to pay a subscription fee. There's at one positive.
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Forgot to add that the game also has the very high danger of being lost among all the other huge PS3 exclusives coming out this year. It may have the Final Fantasy name but if there are other large exclusives coming out around the same time (I don't know the release schedule) then that's yet another problem the game will have to face.
