Quote Originally Posted by Tanathya View Post
Good thing about that is that Valkurm itself was a nice filter for players you knew would give a damn and those who wouldn't and just leave, right there and then. FFXI being that way was an insurance of a healthy community who would work hard for everything. In short, where some people look at it as if it was something bad, I always saw it the other way around. And man, did it pay off, especially when compared to theme park MMO's such as FFXIV.
Valkrum was a filter for people who could put up with BS, or those that just decided to go play games that didn't hit you so hard so early. And before anyone says I wanted to be handed things on a platter, I played Lineage 2 for years. That was arguably just as grindy, if not more.