How am I meant to level with a friend now?

[SuzakuCMX]

Back then there were very few mmos in the market. Sorry man, things change. And I am sorry, but if you can't understand that a decade old game will lose subs just because of fatigue, and dated graphics, not to mention people getting interested in new games, etc... well, you don't understand what rationality and logic is.

I thought the argument was that Abyssea brought a bunch of players back .=. There were 500k active subscription accounts in 2008, compared to 330k active characters now-ish...