It seems that Naoki Yoshida hasn't even played XI at all because all the ideas to this game are being copied from every other MMO EXCEPT XI.

Open hub areas with all dungeons instanced isn't an MMO. It's a co-op game with a lesser story focus. We're basically getting the worst of both worlds here.

And honestly as a long-time FF player I couldn't give a flying **** about forced group content. I'm sorry but i don't and that's what they got right in XI because if there was nobody to do a mission with you you could do it yourself even if it required a lot of skill & planning.

Naoki Yoshida's hand-holding takes all this freedom away from the player and the only way you're doing anything is by waiting 3 hours for a party in barely-alive servers where everybody is either 50 or not playing.