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It's already available.

Even better is the crafting interface. Crafting is such a huge part of this game, and yet it's so tough to use that it's borderline imbecilic. For instance, you get a recipe for something as a quest reward and it's displayed in your log. Once. Unless you wrote it down or have perfect recall, you're going to have to consult a fansite, on another computer, because alt-tabbing away from the game currently crashes the thing.

Run in windowed mode, and you can alt-tab away. Which removes the excuse for alt-tab not working originally, which was "it allows people to cheat." Not supporting alt-tab means that Square Enix can't call it a Windows game, because you must support alt-tab to be able to say "runs on Windows." This is why it says "PC DVD Software" on the package and NOT "Windows." Seriously, check out their website, no mention of Windows, because the game fails the Windows quality standards. (Try and digest that one - the game doesn't even live up to Microsoft's standards of quality.)

But, ugh, the crafting UI is awful. There's no reason for it to exist the way it does. Do it WoW style - list the recipes you know, with them listing required/available items, and just select that to enter the crafting game.

If they offered a customizable UI, this would be fixed in an instant, but... oh well.

Yeah, that uses another resource called 'anima' that regenerates at an abysmally slow rate (and I couldn't find a gauge for to see how much I had left).

You couldn't find one because there isn't one. The only way to see how much anima you have is to attempt to teleport. (Which is Main Menu -> Teleport -> Region -> Zone, for four layers of menu.)

Or you can just select Return on the main menu, since that's a teleport too. It's the easiest way to see how much anima you have. Did you know that you can Return even if you're not dead? You can, it costs 2 anima. This is documented nowhere!

I never did get the payment thing set up right. For whatever reason, Square-Enix outsourced their credit card processing to an outfit called Click and Buy that I've never heard of.

And that right there is the biggest bullshit ever. Turns out that Click and Buy sells themselves as Europe's answer to PayPal.

But wait, Square Enix ALREADY ACCEPTS CREDIT CARDS for FFXI. There's absolutely no reason they can't accept them directly themselves other than sheer asshattery.