"We know that players have started complaining about it. We are moving towards having a system that is closer to the need/greed system like WoW uses. Where players can… if they’re that class they can “need” it, or “greed” it if they want to use it for another class and the “needs” will get precedence over it. We’re finding out how we want to adjust that system and fit it towards FFXIV. Before we do that, we want the opinions of the community on what they feel would be the best type of loot system."

yoshi thinks we want a wow type need/greed system? why not do it the easy way and say to enter the fight you must have the lamp and then each person gets the item in their loot box and has the option to toss or keep their item?

having people in our party have to drop an item that someone else in the party needs, but cannot give it to them is stupid.