I'm hoping it stays strategy based. If Yoshida can pull off his vision I think it will be very good the way it's going. He wants positional and timing play and the new skill list and ifrit fight display that. But as the ifrit fight also shows, there's a long way to go still.

If I want an action based game I will just play GW2 etc. those kind of games have always been good fun but I can't see myself wanting to play one long term (with that said GW2 does look like a decent balance).