I've watched the 2.0 demo a thousand times, like most of you have by now, and I just have to say how hideous the text is. It's way too WoWish and less FF; it doesn't fit the beautiful style of 2.0. One does not need falling text reminding us of what happened to our character 15 seconds ago:
Dodge
Dodge
Dodge
Dodge
Dodge
Dodge
Whatever happened to "Miss!"? That's a more classic FF feel and look imo.
Would be nice to see the text look more like this (note the party list has colored hp and mp bars):
http://cdn.dualshockers.com/wp-conte...00-590x332.jpg
Here is an example of the falling text/WoW text (note here the party list has the same color for all bars):
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8442/7...e2d62ea7_z.jpg
Yeah you can turn off text but what good is that while playing an MMO? And I know there are add-ons coming but I really hope I don't have to go fishing for those and just use what SE has already made for us instead.