I agree Grey. FFXIV seems to have a strange unbalanced feel.

By "unbalanced" I mean that, the game play is group driven (e.g. PVE requires multiple players to band together). However, the "guild system" is structured in a way that keeps players separated, and individual.

In the current guild system it is near impossible to get any real group effort momentum. This is because the current system requires that all players must be not only online at the same time, but also in the same location in the FFXIV world.