This may be my own personal opinion, but I believe that the level cap for the Abyssea areas should be adjusted from the current 30 to 75. At current, most people grind in small parties or solo until they're able to enter Abyssea. From there, they leech until level 90.
In doing so, there has been an adverse affect on quality of players and detrimental decrease in population of various areas. Players are now lacking ambition to continue on anything else but Abyssea areas and strive for nothing else. One area to be noted are the ToAU areas that are being completely bypassed because there is no need to use them other than missions.
Auction Houses are also adversely affected by this, creating gaps between lower level and high-level items and equipment. Simply they are seen as no longer necessary to synthesis or farm to sell in order to turn a profit. This further hurts the the range of players that get stuck in the 30-75 ranges. Some of which are lucky enough to keep at it, soloing, finding pick-up groups, or one of the lucky few that get into an Abyssea party and is carried to the finish line.
In short I would like to have a reconsideration to the level requirement to the Abyssea areas. In raising the level cap to enter Abyssea, players will become more involved in the previous areas, redirecting their focus on other aspects of the game other than simply Abyssea areas.

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