They said this for patch 2.2 and for sometime in 3.0 as well so I would take it worth a grain of salt tbh.

Until they confirm anything as concrete you never know what will be a real thing and what will disappear into that sea of "never spoken about again". Heck even when they show you videos of something it can fall into that sea. Basically believe it when its in the patch notes.

Take everything else as just speculation lol

btw this is from 10-21-2013
Quote Originally Posted by Okipuit View Post
Hello,

We realize there are a lot of concerns about not being able to join the Binding Coil of Bahamut without the use of the Duty Finder as well as free companies that have different purposes.

During Letter from the Producer Live IX the other day, Yoshi-P discussed some upcoming features that will help alleviate these concerns. The biggest of which is the implementation of a party member recruitment feature where you can search something like a bulletin board to find and recruit party members with similar goals. This is scheduled to be implemented in patch 2.1 and we will be announcing more details on this feature in the future.

Also, as we've mentioned in the past we will be indicating what item level equipment is required for content in order to participate, so members who wish to participate with you will all be on the same page gear wise.

Finally, in patch 2.2, as we mentioned in a separate post last week, we are planning to implement a free company alliance system, which will let you join your free companies together to see both member lists, share a chat channel, and have other useful features.

We'll be implementing a variety of features moving forward step by step to ensure that everyone can play comfortably and easily in the content that they wish to participate in.