Quote Originally Posted by Jynxii View Post
*Snip* because of character limit
Your ideas sound feasible and I think they are, but keep one thing in mind, you asked "so can you (or anyone) tell me the exact difference between a) GW2's open MMO world and dynamic event system and b) FFXIV's open MMO world and FATE system?".

Yoshi-P has stated this quite a few times, they have a very different server setup compared to any other MMORPG last seen. Their server handles practically everything, I am not saying that it is a factor that could worsen the idea of scaling, but it is definately something that they need to take into account and they could, because of that, not 'copy-paste'* code from GW2 in FFXIV:ARR.
* Of course copy-pasting is not possibly like this in software, but it's just there for the argument.