I've been playing XI again recently. The lower level party dynamics are good, but as soon as you reach abyssea they all go out of the window and it's just an XIVesque clustershmuck.

Kind of tragic, such fond memories of the group levelling stuff.... And they just threw it all away with the alliance levelling in Abyssea! It's mind boggling!

You wouldn't find me going back to XI with improved graphics unless there was a proper alternative to Abyssea.