that's a whole lot of words that have nothing to do with how people were apparently okay enough with abyssea leveling to keep playing until a time that MYSTERIOUSLY CORRELATES to the release of a bad expansion and a good sequel
EDIT: granted, a lot of people left when the previous expansion, they felt, invalidated the work they had put in to date, but a lot MORE people stuck around because that expansion, abyssea, was for its part very good