Why not borrow the good parts from FFXI?

[Stanelis]

Would result in, and I quote yourself, "100s of people running from nm to nm killing things near instantly, and lagging people out."

But is is what Eureka is, what 2.X fate farming was and what hunts are.

That is not a valid comparison. 500k was FFXI's maximum subscriber base. 500k is the "active" number for the FFXIV census, which includes only characters that have completed the level 65 dungeon. There are many paying subscribers who have not done that. I attempted an apples-to-apples comparison on this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...83#post4547683. To be fair, I assume far more people complete content in FFXIV than did in FFXI, but even given that, FFXIV's endgame community is several times the size of FFXI's.

Contrary to popular belief, FFXI used to be hugely popular and used to be the second MMORPG behind wow for a while.

https://trends.google.com/trends/exp...%2Fm%2F064ln09

Data doesn't show FFXIV to be more popular than FFXI was during its prime time.

Also I guess you never noticed all the reskined crab, fish, leaches, ghosts ect that XI had you whacking on to level up.

You mean, the same models you're actually currently fighting in FFXIV ?