Oh, and by the way... the actual worst thing about 2.0 is that it is so far away but mostly because there's no way to tell if all of these planned features will actually ever make it in. The game sounds like it'll be something great if all of those features are in there but who knows?
I'm definitely interested in the "worldless" model though. Adventuring with buddies on other servers? Sounds great.

Over the years I played FFXI, I ended up meeting a number of people here in Houston who played and almost none were on Bismarck with me, had the worldless model been in place maybe I'd have been able to go on some adventures with them!