AWESOME!!! no new ideas!!! lets make this game into another solo-mmorpg (why online... hmmm).
I would love to have more party camps, more mobs to grind on. I don't play an mmo for solo questing only...
They aren't making everything soloable. Way to overreact.

The letter didnt say much but the few things pretty much pointed out that its casual (and easy mode) > hard and challenging. Why do they think that people wanna come home from work and play a game that offers no challenge at all?
The entire post was about levequests. The whole focus on XIV is not going to be the leveling but the character progression.

I don't get it. They are leaving the niche they could have been in, and will now have to fully compete with rift, aion, wow...
From a purely marketing standpoint SQEX can't survive in that niche anymore. XI survived 7 years of it and then finally went the way of the casual gamer because that is where the money is.

Chocobos are getting pushed back once again, that's sad. They should change the anima cost then once again. Haven't they said, they want to decrease the return cost to 0?
Chocobos never had a timetable. This is the first time they've confirmed when they are going to work on the mount system.