My in depth review of FFXIV:

[Scootaloo]

Not to mention the red circles start to disappear as you hit the higher-level encounters. And then you have those rather unforgiving encounters where if a single player forgets to do a single thing, the entire party gets one-shotted (e.g. missing a stun/silence on Dhorme Chimera). Even relatively simple fights with predictable patterns, like Ifrit or Demon Wall, are really easy to wipe on if one person doesn't do his job right.

And this stuff is just starter, lowbie end game.

Well, I have said that my character highest character is 47, so at the present time I have yet to do end game content like the stuff you guys are talking about.

On a side note: I made my review based on my experience in the game so far. That's what reviews are about usually, one's perception of said game based on what they have experienced in game. with that said, it can change as time goes on.