i like the way the OP said XI-2 and the first this everyone reads is the need to do everything in a pt. now needing to work togeter alot more isn't such a bad thing infact i would go as far as to call t a good thing for a mmo, but it can be taken to a extream like in XI. if everything can be solo there you'll find it much harder to establish a strong comunity, on the flip side though if you have to do everyting as a pt it's hard to be a casusal player who logs on for a a few hours a day and doesn't have the time to spent a hour+ looking for pt, here is the hoping the new content finds the happy medium.

i started playing a back at the start of the beta and back there there we very few infulances from XI and as i play today i can see alot more creeping in. i dont think this is a bad thing either there is lots in XI that works well and it should influance the way XIV content is constructed but not control it.