From what I last heard, they will allow the 24 man raid for Crystal Tower to be formed under Party Finder or full FC run in the near future. While this may sound exciting on paper, anyone else afraid this still won't be a "true" raid system like we see in other MMO's? I mean your 8 man's party actions will still be *locked* strictly to your party. For example, in other MMOs if a healer does AOE heals, it heals all 20 players in raid or if a bard puts up buffs, it gives buff to all raid members. I am afraid this won't be the case in FFXIV raids.

They may allow custom parties for full raid, but they're still strictly based on 8 man party system. This is what Crystal Tower is hinting at. That's very disappointing. Of course I would love to be proved wrong in the future and want a classic raid where buffs and heals are shared across all raid members. What do you guys think? Has SE ever said anything about this?