you can defend abyssea all you want. i like the place but all i said it was unbalance but all of you people keep forgetting even SE said "abyssea was a mistake and unbalance" on some interview before. since SE already broke the damn thing they didn care at that point & kept going. that was the time they killed 75 and lower lvl pts. one of the interview with SE.

now we in the SoA days SE even made it worst, players was keep asking for broken easy gear to get in no time. (skirmish was born) so now since things moving so fast, players are going to quit and leave faster. these are the reasons why FFXI is declining(defend it all you want but it facts), like lot of people said it no long term goals anymore. you can max out like less then 2 months. back at the 75 cap days we still had LOT of S#$% to do but at 99 we have less.

so how we going to fix this now? or can we even fix this? atm less people logging on, rarely any /sh happening it just a ghost town. starting to think any updates wont fix this, it starting to turn into like the old PSO (phantasy star online) it die out as soon people became broken strong so fast and got bored fast too. so bash on the old school stuff all you want but answer this, we been caped at 75 for many many years and the game was still strong with all them events, xp pt etc going on, why did it start to slowly die out after abyssea, SoA?