Let's have a round of applause for bringing grind parties front and center in FFXIV

[Murugan]

So basically, everyone is under the impression that WoW invented dungeons, raids, and questing, and that any game that includes these is a WoW clone. How tragic.

No what WoW did was make solo generic questing the most efficient by far means of leveling a character. No MMO previously had done this, other MMO's since have. This makes them WoW clones.

This is what Neptune, Tonymontana, Gifforce, and several others want the game to be. A similar WoW clone. What they don't realize is that the vast majority of people do not enjoy leveling at all in WoW clones. They only tolerate questing because it is the fastest way of leveling. This type of questing can exist, but to have it exist on the level of WoW kills the possibility of grouping, something many people enjoy.

The Dev teams want people to be able to play their own way, stop trying to constrain us all to your WoW-type leveling system. The best that can be said about that type of gameplay is "at least it didn't take long". Well for once you people are right this is not FFXI, which means the leveling curve is no where near what XI's was. Stop complaining, you can still overall level just fine soloing and they have acknowledged problems with the current rewards at certain levels. You don't need to kill the game for people who enjoy grouping.