How the game is now is how it will always be, just with more instances. There will always be this horrible casual token system in place and weekly lock outs. After reading that interview with 4Gamer. Yoshida couldn't really handle hardcore games, so he isn't going to make anything even remotely close to that. If standing around town waiting for the DF to do some faceroll easy instance with no real open world content is something that doesn't seem interesting to you. Then this game is not for you.