Quote Originally Posted by finiteHP View Post
The only things that I'm against requiring parties are the storyline and to a lesser extent levelling.
Sounds like their intent is to make it to where you will have to group up for key moments in the storyline. Which I'm ok with, as usually story content isn't AS difficult as some other end-game stuff. I agree with Yoshi-P though in his philosophy that it was pretty silly that the DoL and DoH could mostly talk their way out of every situation.

Quote Originally Posted by Nadrojj View Post
Some people don't like the time syncs it is to wait for others. There is a lot of stand around time for sure. Then you always get the guy who didn't get their cosmo cleaner, or forgot to change their subjob or something like that where you have to wait some more.
This is definitely a turn-off (and I've even been guilty of it myself) but humans will be human. The fact that it took forever to do anything in FFXI is probably a big part of why many people don't want forced grouping for everything shoved down their throat.