Quote Originally Posted by Stompa View Post

Your Aby/seacom stuff is also meaningless, because we got LevelSynch which means you can party with friends or anyone at a lower level if you can't get party for your current level. Ffxi would still be a popular game if it had 6-man partying using level-synch to augment available members and available camps. Aby alliances turned people into zombies and then they got bored and quit the game.

Level Synch: I saw two things going on with this. People didn't do it because exp was way slower even when you had a good party and the parties were far less likely to be good at lower levels. Low level camps were usually annoying to get to as well.

The biggest use of level sych that I experienced was people synching to 37ish and partying on colibri in past zones. A lot of time, the level synch person didn't have to do anything at all. It was abyssea on a smaller scale.

Gear didn't scale correctly, so not only was the person who synched down frustrated by his crappy gear, but so was the rest of the party. DOes anyone really want to have to carry gear for every level for each job? Nope.

It had very little effect on the problems people faced finding groups.