Seriously? When I came from EQ I thought the death penalty in FFXI was light. Not having to run back to a corpse to collect my gear took away most of the fear associated with death. By comparison, FFXIV's death penalty is already a joke.

Also, in a single player game, a simple game over can mean hours of lost time in between save points. So using that as a analogy for removing any penalty at all in an MMO isn't comparing apples to apples. It doesn't take hours to get anywhere in FFXIV, even without anima.