But man, those were some great times. Between the mass confusion, the chaos, seeing people drop and new people take their place trying to take it down. FFXIV could benefit from some hectic, chaotic open world PVE.
In a sense, with SE having multi-cultural servers it would bring back the feelings of being in a 200 person max rank besieged in FFXI. Having someone from literally every corner of the world working together trying to bring down that main boss, and getting their asses kicked into oblivion. Truly was a ridiculously fun time.
In XIV I could see a huge dragon flying over 1 of the main cities, and having sirens go off, or some sort of indicator allowing players to be informed of the situation. Then seeing a mass exodus of players out onto the field to battle with that big Dragon, or a Behemoth type giant.. could be anything. I would really love to see something like this.