EC explains how the current progression system is flawed

[Fendred]

@Zarzak

It seems they want to take FFXIV:ARR in the general direction of earlier MMORPGs, at least to a point. Yoshida was supposedly surprised by how well received the Hunt system was pre-expansion, and in 3.1 they are introducing the FC airship content, which is somewhat related to burning circle notorious monsters from FFXI. They are experimenting with non-WoW instanced and non-instanced content, but I think it will be several years before we see them start to move away from dungeon grind as the primary engine of progress.

Edit: And I don't mean that as though I think they are sluggish as developers. It just takes a long time for features to come out. I think Ghostcrawler (WoW Dev) answered someone's question pertaining to the subject of competitor features and he said it would take developers 4-6 months to make a feature matching something in a competing product.