Yeah I agree OP. One the best features of XI was all the open world content (regardless of the claiming issues for HNM). I hate hate hate the concept that they want to keep the game heavily instanced. For some content, is going to be necessary, but for the rest, they just seem to do it because it's easier on the dev's.. There are making the open world less and less dynamic, so less and less of of those "o crap!" moments stumbling on a LS or random players owning some cool mob (or getting owned). I loved seeing people actually do things in the game other than IDLE. This jus will make the open world even more boring.. but I guess it allows them to pump out more content faster, which is also needed so.. meh. I hope they at least start drastically increasing the # of members that can participate, and the cleartime of the event. Current instanced content is such a snooze, even IF you get a spot.