New expansion?!?

[Alhanelem]

It seems your opinion isn't shared by everyone.

Nor is yours. Different people have different perspectives. I'm just telling it how I see it. Some people are happier than others.

From my perspective, the year prior to audolin was the game's lowest point. Although subbed much of it, I played the game very little during that time; I play it much more now. There just wasnt much interesting in the new content during that time, largely because abyssea set the bar too high in power levels which compromised the potential enjoyment of the content that came after. Audolin solved that problem and did so in a reasonably good way.

Is the game perfect or close to it? Hell no. But I'm enjoying it a lot more than I have in a long time, and I know other people who are too. So please, don't poop on people's opinions because of your judgement of the number of people who share them (which isn't really even accurate). Some people like it, some people don't, I get that. But I can say with relative confidence that more people are happy now than were prior to audolin's release.

There was several people who dropped in adoulin because of some of the new gear that came out and RMEs they made that weren't 119 yet.

The % of people with R/M/E (prior to audolin) is pretty low and I extremely doubt that anyone quit the game permanently because they didn't immediately offer upgrades to them. I don't know how anyone could have believed that they were never going to do that (therefore throwing their hardest-to-earn-items-in-the-game down the drain), especially considering that relic and artifact armor upgrades were made available. If a person was invested in the game enough to make these, and DID take a break from the game, odds are they'd have been following the news and came back when they found out their work wasn't in vain.