Could Merit Points/Job Points or another sort of character progression work for FF14?

[Daralii]

At this point, I'm not convinced that they'll be able to come up with and implement an alternate advancement system, so my prediction is 110 or nothing.

[Kranel_San]

I believe we're at the end of the vertical progression and the beginning of the horizontal progression, akin to the lv75 era in FFXI

Whatever they do, the expectations are pretty low on the quality itself. They need to UP the game.