I don't see why people are saying a world like skyrim would make it less like a MMO, if anything it enhances the feeling. It adds more adventure and danger, when theres hundreds of people in every place you go to it looses its sense of adventure, and that is one of the things MMOs are about. You would still have your populated areas (ex: revenants toll), but having a large seamless world would be the icing on top. I don't see how anyone could say if they didn't see anyone else in their immediate location that it "kills the mmo feeling". People are too focused on the MMO part that they forget the RPG, you need both, and the latter is what is lacking in FFXIV most in my opinion.