Why the heavy focus on instance only?

[Wolfie]

And yet people don't all agree it's the best way to do things...in other words totally subjective.

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Like many others I want a good balance of both instanced and openworld content, XI had a nice balance it had plenty of instanced content as well as openworld stuff to do. Perhaps it leaned towards openworld a bit more but it was fairly close to being a medium.

You mean FFXI purists don't agree on the FFXIV forums that instances aren't currently the best available solution. Because nobody's complaining about instances in other MMOs.