Will you quit if this game becomes raid-centric?

[Synfrag]

If it doesn't have the Open World feel at least they yes I will probably drop it. However, as people have implied "Instanced" does not necessarily mean raiding or dungeon. This could still be popped instances via an item or quest or be tied to Faction/Grand Company levequests. I'm sure someone already mentioned this but BCNM, ENM, KSNM, ISNM were all instanced. I have a feeling grand company leves will focus more on this as they are now becoming the main storyline. They talk about the Ifrit battle as a "Battle" which I interpret as being like a BCNM or similar to an Avatar fight in XI. And XI did in fact have a lot of Raid type content such as Dynamis, Limbus, Assault, Einherjar etc. So I can imagine more of those things this time and less HNMs like LoO, Vrtra, Fafnir, Nidhog, Jormy etc. which 75% of the population never fought anyhow. They will probably keep NMs along the caliber of Leaping Lizzy, Stray Mary, Mysticmaker (for all you BLMs out there ^^)

[Haji]

However, as people have implied "Instanced" does not necessarily mean raiding or dungeon. This could still be popped instances via an item or quest or be tied to Faction/Grand Company levequests.

I did not have time to read entire topic, but I'm glad someone mentioned this. In fact, when I first heard about "instanced" content, I first thought about how behest is done. It's open air, everyone can watch, but only those that have quest can fight the mobs.

As for the general question: I'm heavly in favour of instancing, whethever it's dungeon raids or open-air raids. I did not play FFXI, but I read some about their "open" monsters and it's not something I'd like to live throu. Even more importantly it's not something I'm prepered to pay to live throu.

As for preferences, I'd say it best to keep balance: make some open-air instances and some dungeons with bosses. Which one to cocnentrate on first? To be honest, for me it would make little diffrence.