Quote Originally Posted by Byrth
With better incentives or higher drop rates, member retention wouldn't be as much of an issue. As it is, they've followed two big event changes that make way for lowman stuff (Abyssea and Neo-Dynamis) with an event that works best with a full alliance.
When you put it this way, I have to laugh at how many good ideas the FFXI has lifted from WoW over the past five years, culminating in Abyssea as an FFXI-centric version of World of Badgecraft, only to end up running afoul of the Karazhan > Gruul's Lair/Magtheridon transition the WoW devs have said on several occassions completely ruined what would have been their best expansion.