FFXI is a really old game and also catered to console first. When i come to the current gen MMOs there is no excuse for these types of things, it should be as far apart and more efficient than FFXI. Also, there are things in FFXI that they did BETTER than they did now. You can't expect more than probably 80% of the people (not literally, but a huge part is what i meant) to stand for these things.

Have you ever touched WoW? I haven't played it hardcore or even that long (less than an hour) but just learning a little bit about the system, its already way better than FFXIV's. Hell even FFXI's clunky interface is better. Things were at least smooth and flowing.

I know that this is a PC porting to PS3 but it is absolutely a console game as well as a PC game so regardless of what platform the game is released on first or ported to, it still has to be a game that is playable on the console, so that will always limit things.
Sorry thats not excusable at all. Its like saying you should use a controller to play a FPS on your PC because it has a console port. This does not make any sense. Hell, Resident Evil 4 had this issue and they got slammed face first by poor reviews...and rightfully so. Something this fundamental shouldn't be an issue at this stage.

There is no excuse for this, they have nothing to do one one another. Sure the console will limit the game eventually but this should not be one of them. In fact what you said here was true, then this game is definitely not worth my time. It would be insulting to the PC gamers that buy the game.

Square Enix's venture into MMORPGs did not start with FF14...i expected it to be at least better than FF11. It currently is not.

I'd say a lot of things in 11 have been left out of 14, also the menu and targeting systems do seem much more clumsy to me, but I'm suffering major graphics lag so not sure if that's my end or not.
Everyone suffers this, even my friend who custom made his computer JUST for this game.