It's their totally cheap strategy with SoA.... how do you designed one of the worst expansion ever to grace FFXI? Make sure it has the worst reward - effort ratio, tons of walled areas so you cannot progress, huge amount of bayld needed to do anything worth doing, and pretty much everything is a pain to do and depend on server wide effort. As it is now, Reive is totally blows and pretty much abandoned by most players already. 2 weeks out and the vote is pretty much in, SoA take the cake and the title of the most worthless expansion to date. Very slow with updates and tweaks, and generally reviled overall, with one of the most boring grindtastic fest ever created.

This end of April update better be mind blowing because right now, SoA is dead on arrival....