FFXI's camp-style grinding was terrible. Seriously, standing in one place for hours and hours pulling one mob at a time made the monotony almost unbearable. Please don't try to add that style of gameplay to FFXIV. It isn't any fun.

The people who liked FFXI's style of grinding seemed to only like for the fact that you were playing with other people, which is understandable, but you CAN play with other people in a WoW style questing system. In fact, doing so makes WoW's quest grinding much more entertaining. The people who don't know this probably either never played WoW, or never bothered to try playing with other people in it.