I understand all points. I can agree with the OP who loves the game and doesn't want the experienced ruined for people. I have never been offered a PL. It is also very pain staking trying to gain enough lvl's so i can continue the story (Wich by the way is awesome in my opinion). I have wanted to quit many times because it just seems to impossible at times to reach lvl 50, but the higher lvls around me, and the story keeps me playing. I see the potential FF14 has, and I see all the cool things that come with being a higher lvl and I want those things for myself. So I grind my Leve's day after day ( with a break here and there.) waiting for contact from a guild signaling the start of a new main quest. My only gripe is FF14 doesn't have the amount of quest's I'm use to in other MMO's. Maybe that's what sets FF14 apart from the rest. Just gets hard and tedious, and boring at times, specially since most ppl on my server speak everything but English.