Quote Originally Posted by Arcon View Post
Oh you people are so cute. Will any of the Abyssea defenders, just for one second, stop pretending they're arguing against someone and present one reason why they believe the development team can keep Abyssea-like content up? Please? No? I thought so. Have fun confirming each other's views on Abyssea another five hundred times in here.
I think I said before multiple times that the content doesn't need to exactly be Abyssea with a new set of zones moreso Abyssea in the sense that every won battle is a step towards getting something. If you're excuse is that SE can't keep up with releasing content then you've still got to explain why they chose the stall 'n wall method rather than create a bunch of good items, use said items as bait to repeat Voidwatch hundreds of times and watch as players enjoy/hate repeating said content while you work on new content for the upcoming VU.

One method has been proven to be the worst method to be imposed upon players whereas the other has been proven to be universally lauded as reasonable and worth the time investment if the gear is worth it.

Abyssea did kill old events. It wasn't just the level cap. It was mainly the gear from Abyssea that made old gear completely obsolete. I still did Limbus, Dyna, Sea, Sky, Einherjar, etc. with whomever was interested. But guess what, people weren't interested, and not because it was too easy (hell, isn't that why everyone loves Abyssea?), but because there was no incentive to do so. If you wanna pretend that's not the case, go ahead, I'm fairly sure most people in here already know how to put their fingers into their ears and sing, to keep the bad voices out.
And like I said before, if Abyssea never existed the content that would have taken its place would have had to void the old gear because there was nowhere to go but up with regards to stats. What were you gonna do? Sidegrade content from 75-95? What would be the point of getting new gear then? Either way, the level cap spelled doom for the old content because the added levels coupled with emphasis on new pieces meant old pieces were going to plummet in value.


On a side note: the Fafnir at 4AM was not meant for everyone. It was meant for people who were awake at 4AM. You made it your own personal mission to camp it at 4AM. It's precisely why HNMs have a 21~24 repop window and not a 23:45 repop window, so it changes timezones after a while.
People did it anyway. The developers should have noticed this had gone out of control and stepped in years ago to rectify the issue as stewards of the game. What did they do? Said 'oh well, less work for me' and let a bad situation get worse.

Stop making excuses for what was clearly a conscious decision by the devs to ignore botting and backstabbing.