Quote Originally Posted by Cloudane View Post
And also oddly enough because we knew it'd be fixed but that it'd be in one giant update, so I know I was one of many holding off until I heard about this giant update coming out. Maybe it would've been better for them to say yes there are problems, but we'll be fixing them incrementally starting immediately. Maybe I'd have joined, knowing I'd be seeing improvements over time.
This is exactly what happened. They moved Tanaka from the project and turned it over to Yoshi-P. FFXIV right now is virtually unrecognizable from launch. It went for over a year being completely free-to-pay while they fixed a majority of the problems in the game within the confines of the existing engine. The re-release is allowing them to take it a step further by creating a new engine from the ground up. But the transformation so far is already phenomenal.