Honestly, there needs to be good FC exclusive group content. Right now, FCs are mostly irrelevant. And I think that needs to change. Look at casual (and possibly midcore) statics for example. They're mostly groups of people spread across the datacentre. Now imagine if they made it so Savage content could only be accessed if everyone in the group was in the same FC. Yes, it kills pugs, but it gives FCs some more meaning. And honestly, I wouldn't be opposed to them changing Savage to be like that (even though I know it'll never happen).

Why? Because atm, it seems like FCs are an afterthought in this game, simply added because WoW has guilds and FFXIV needed an answer to guilds. But as for this FC group content... if it locks out 1-man FCs and people not in an FC (which I will be when I move back to Omega)... GOOD! That's exactly the point of it, to push people towards FCs that aren't 1-person FCs. And if you're not willing to join an FC group in order to partake in this content, then you're not the intended market for this FC. Let's take PvP as an example. Some really nice looking rewards from PvP. But I'm not the target market for PvP, so I don't get the rewards. And frankly, that's OK! Not every thing has to appeal to every person.