Earlier post by Arumat

"As far as the negatives go, the only thing I don't want to see is a similar HNM system as FFXI. It was a very unfriendly system to even hardcore players as it was VERY time consuming and VERY unfair for non-bot/non-super hardcore(those with NO life obligations, they had no where to be, ever...) players."

This is exactly what FFXIV should be working towards to. It's meant to be a happy playing community. It should be such that everyone has a fair chance to obtain that special piece of gear. If it's going to be open world, camping HNMs for hours and you miss the claim, then I'm sure lots of flaming & bashing is going to occur on forums, nasty reactions with a payload of expletives will occur in game, all kinds of grief tactics will come along. People will condemn, speak bad about another. Why the need for all of this? Just because of a single piece of godly gear?

FFXIV should have no room for this at all. Hence Instanced Areas with NMs & HNMs will solve it and most importantly, you will never have to camp beside a botter/hacker at all. End of the day, your friends & yourself go back to your Mog House with the godly pieces of gears obtained happily. I mean, don't you want that?