I think the best part of all this is Yoshi-P coming out and telling everyone that the accepted "party" sizes are going to be 4 and 8. We've been going through so much crap testing trying to see how many people we can in parties before we get drastically reduced SP bonus/gains.

Him telling us its going to be 4 is just like FFXI force-feeding us 6 man PTs. Sometimes the players need to be told that way they can design encounters and balance regular mobs around the many class combinations that will be available in the 4 man groups.

It's a good step forward. Personally I would've liked 5 or 6 but 4 is good too.