The direction of FFXIV is leaning the wrong way as it stands know. Yoshi gives in to all the cry babies. This group says "I dont have 5 hours a day" next group says "This is too hard" or Someone stole my spot in and escort. I can go on and on but it comes down to 1 thing and that is if the open world content is null and void and everything is instanced players WILL LEAVE!!! As of right now FFXIV is on easy mode and it looks like come 2.0 this game will be on baby mode. Story's for boss fights can be instanced along with a few other pieces of content but to out right pretty much make every damn thing an instance isnt right. To make players level there avatars by questing and instanced dungeons is just plain wrong.


If Yoshi makes it so that everything is leveled by a quest, instances with out exp camps this game will fail in short order. SE and the DEV's need to make FFXIV the best it can and by makeing it one sided will guarentee that FFXIV has a very short life span. Some players may say this game will be better with questing for character progression others will say instanced dungeons, but after it is all said and done and that there is very little to no open world content FFXIV becomes another lobby game. Once this game becomes a lobby game it is no longer a MMO but just another piece of shit on the market.

FFXIV needs to have all types of content evenly balanced for all players and at the rate the DEV's are going that isnt gonna happen. The issue at hand is will their be open world content or as it seems right now from an interview with yoshi that everything will be done by questing or instanced dungeons just to have character progression. If all there is is quests and instanced content for character progression, than what would be the point in even playing this game. I know I am not the only one who finds questing and instanced content boreing as hell. So let SE and the DEV's cater to one side and see how fast FFXIV falls flat on its face. Once this happens SE will lose alot more than just money!!