I hope this game doesn't become like FFXI

[Carmillia]

This game needs to be harder in a lot of aspects. Maybe not the longer time-consuming grind that XI was, but they really need to ramp up the difficulty. There is absolutely no sense of challenge or accomplishment for doing anything

^ This
I loved FFXI and all the challenges, the stories, epic battles but the huge time sinks killed the fun in the long run! I wouldn't mind going in the same direction but with much less time sink.