My take on what can be changed for FFXIV

[DrWho2010]

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While this is "nice", imo it's completely antithetical to the business model of a slow drip to keep people subbed as long as possible.
This would be good if the game went more towards a F2P model.

Part of the reason i think ppl don't like the 2 min meta is that it doesn't reward individual effort as much as previous expansion battle systems did. Therefore since it's a group effort, people are too selfish to see beyond this, esp. when paired/grouped with people not at the same skill level as they are.

Open world/zone activities - the whole backend would have to be redone to make it more like how Bozja/Zadnor zones worked. Those only worked like they do because they were controlled, population limited instances with specialized programming to deal with it. Does anyone not remember about how annoyed they were when SB launched and the Lochs was impossible to get into whenever Ixion first was a thing? Cuz that's what's gonna happen if they tried to do that in a regular open world zone.

As a whole I don't totally disagree with OP's post, but imo from what we've seen what the devs want to do vs this? There would have to be wayyyyyyyyyyyy more people hired and more money fuelled towards this in order for this to happen. Something I currently don't see happening.