Well, I'll ask everyone to express their opinion about the future of the FFXI,
My opinion is a mix of feeling/opinions: sometimes while i'm farming a armor and/or weapon that took me a day or more to get, it's aparently a big accomplishment but we like to say to ourself that this game is a hardcore game, then sometimes we "just" want to spend our time doing big accomplishments and despite the fact that this thing is killing "the true fun" of playing with strangers or friends or known players, we blame everyone for not having the same goals, interest, "skill to play" and/or desire to be a virtual hero or a virtual villan.
We know this isn't right, and if you think this is right, I'm sorry, I'm favor to see everyone being good with other people, but I'm sure that will never happen, because most of people on the internet want to be a virtual villan.
And that's my biggest worry about FFXI Future, I'd challenge Square Enix to change this.