What's your first impression of Eureka?

[Stanelis]

From what I'm reading, I'm kind of glad they added this. It's a taste of what FFXI was for years. (Before it got decent with FoV, Abyssea, ToAU parties, etc.) Grinding for hours upon countless hours on mobs for abysmal experience. Thankfully, in FFXIV, it's only one instance, and not the entire game. And you only have to level to 20, not 75. It's fixable. You just have to put Tanaka in the broom closet for a little while.

Except it is nothing like FFXI. In FFXI only your party could fight a mob at any given time (even though it was grindy), therefore the gameplay was relevant at all time. Here due to the fact that there aren't any limitation on the number of players that can fight a mob at any given time, it is basically like all the open world content in FFXIV : a mindless zergfest.