Balance, Homogenisation and Encounter Design: The Problem.

[Driavna]

No need to go around looking for a party when you can just push a button and BAM, you're in a queue. No need to hang out near the dungeon or raid entrance and possibly--I dunno--socialize with people nearby who might have similar interests and goals to yours, possibly making some friends.

Just click, queue, enter, and never see that party again once you're done.

I was about to edit my topic to acknowledge your point. And you are not wrong, however, players are to blame too. Some will rather complain over and over about how bad all dungeons parties are, how all extreme farm parties are traps, how the new loot system sucks over and over than solving the problem by joining others with similar objectives. In fact, that behaviour was also present in many MMO's before the standardization of similar tools to FFXIV DF.

Anyway, since you asked: Yes. In fact, if Phanteon is released at some point and turns out to be an acceptable game I will leave FFXIV for good (ok, perhaps I will sub from time to time to finish the current MSQ plot :P). But I will also leave FFXIV if at some point they do something similar to GW: Nightfall, that's my line (even if I agree with many of Dzian points).