Quote Originally Posted by Visch View Post
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...er-2011/page25

Post #248

Yoshida: I think it’s good where other players can help and with later alliance battle where few parties get together we really think we don’t need the claiming system. Contents that drop rare items will be more instance based in future, and will also lessen where you have to fight over to claim.
I'd prefer a scan to read it in Japanese, but that's good enough I guess. Kind of disappointing; I think the best game would be one that has instanced content and open world stuff, not one or the other.