I've made a number of similar suggestions over the years and always been a highly divisive topic irrespective how you tackle it.

It's difficult to drum up support for this kind of thing due to the more hardcore scene wanting much more whilst also getting firm resistance from the anti ACT crowd. Large portions of either side are surprisingly unwilling to meet in the middle for any kind of compromise no matter the benefits it might bring or how softly softly and measured it's approach is.

It's a shame as I still think that a DPS/mechanics orientated Gold Saucer mini game would be a win win situation for all facets of the player base and for little effort from SE.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...parser-problem