@Akujima: Reading comprehension must be a component of the MTV generation, then.

He clearly said that the majority of the playerbase, as announced by SE (and which I am inclined to believe as well), had never completed the CoP mission line before the nerfs which took place long before Abyssea had even been announced. Of those who did manage to complete them pre-nerf, of which I doubt you are one, most people completed missions so far apart from one another that the continuity of the storyline was lost in the shuffle.

It doesn't matter how good a story is if you're seeing it piece by piece over the course of months. WotG only aggravated this problem further, taking 3 years to complete the main mission line.