Positive New Trends

[Avenger]

As of patch 2.51, hunts aren't as oversubscribed so they're becoming fun again!

More use of, and more intelligent use of, Party Finder! Party Finder is great! I'd like to see it become an actual competitor to Duty Finder!

I actually met some people in DF who didn't try to make me skip cutscenes or lock me out of battles when I was doing a dungeon for the first time!

People seem to be having a lot of fun with the gold saucer, and everyone is playing cards everywhere!

Lots of new players who aren't spambots!

Lots of people showing their fashion sense (or lack thereof!)

More semi-spontaneous silly events like dance parties, mount trains, large Moogle minion circles or fat chocobo vs. magitek armor battles!

I can't verify this for sure, but I think character names might be getting more creative on our server - recently I've seen some good rp-esque ones as well as some clever/funny ones, and many new players seem to have put some thought into their character names.

I've recently seen people actually offering help and assistance in response to a request for same.

Fewer "selling ex primals" shouts - who wants a sold-out ex-primal anyway?