They elected the no-Hyper, 20 minute version of this and the change will be implemented tomorrow. They are also making it so you have to kill Fracture NMs to drop the walls and open up new parts of the Fracture. Basically, they took what was already moderately exclusive event and made it incredibly exclusive for anyone that didn't do it within the last week:
* The 20 minute fight limit will make it difficult for casuals to get wins
* The lack of wall-dropping in Fracture will hamper attempts to farm Plasm in shout groups by reducing the pool of available monsters
* Hardcores will not be affected by the changes as much, because they can get >5k Plasm per Fracture run just killing NMs

On the upside, there will be no more long, boring fights.

Here are the posts, if you are interested and can read JP:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...415#post430415
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...414#post430414