Since FFxiv 1.0 went down I'm sure a lot of pple here have gone on to play other mmo's. I went back to an old MMO i used to play called vindictus. Reviewers call it a hack nd slash MMO, I dunno what that means but to me its just mega action and very dynamic. Absolutely horrible in terms of storyline but they make up for it in action, which is why most pple play the game.

After getting into another big MMO, I now value a lot of things i saw in XIV and now don't understand a lot of things i read on the forums.

Firstly, compared to a couple of MMO's I've seen out there, RMT's are almost nonexistent in XIV. I mean you see face roll names at natalan and cedar wood but apart from that theres no other place you'd come in content with pple u'd think are RMT's. In other games I've seen chat logs constantly spammed with pple selling in game gold and places where buying gold is very common, Ive really come to appreciate this about XIV.

Also, talking about story lines I've noticed how XIV has a storyline that most pple are familiar with. I skip cutscenes as much as the next guy but still I could write a paper on the GC storyline and background lore, my home city (LL ftw!) and a couple of my DOH story series. Even though we do the "race to max level nd get into endgame" here too, the storyline isn't completely disregarded and unknown by all.

Ive got a couple of other things I miss and don't miss about XIV 1.0, but these two are my biggest and i don't wanna put up a wall of txt.

Anyone got into another MMO during this downtime nd noticed things they missed about 1.0 or things they've seen in other games that they'd love if 1.0 had too?.