Quote Originally Posted by Deo14 View Post
I know right? This sounds great! Anyways, seems like you wanted to say something about downsides, what was it?
Gear Score, Raider.io score, not using auto-grouping in favor of manual with third-party scoring addon (and telling everyone how they suck and how their performance was trash, not inviting a job that isn't bis/meta/flavor of the month)... WoW has it, FFXIV does not. The game would have to decide - either pursue the single-player FF players they are doing now or switch to a more competitive-oriented MMO and face the inevitable "mandatory" add-ons and player gradation. WoW went all the way while FFXIV avoided making most of the decisions.