EXP Parties as an option please!

[Enkidoh]

When you remove all the tedious grinding, ultimately an old-style EXP party is just a social event, nothing more (which is the real arguement being made here - the OP basically just wants a chat room with fighting in it).

FFXI EXP parties were so monotonous due to FFXI's slow, drawn out battle system, hence socializing was a way to break the monotony and actually make it fun - it's like any real-life situation where a group of people are thrown together in a dull or boring setting and start to have conversations to make things more interesting. Nothing wrong with that of course, except it just wouldn't work here, as FFXIV's battle system is just too fast paced to spend time yacking about random stuff.

This is why you usually don't see people talking much in a dungeon - they're more worried with the task at hand to waste time chewing the fat (especially as dungeons are timed and you simply don't have time to waste talking).

Really, if you want to chat with random people, go sit in the Adventurer's Guild around a table and strike up a conversation around a bottle of gyshal ale, battles just aren't the right place for that.