The constant disbanding of Steps of Faith

[kyuven]

This population needs, badly, an investigation as to whether the 82 RMT outfits who are spamming the crap out of us are getting people buying characters, because the level of players who don't even deserve a Level 50, much less an ilevel one hundred and something, truly makes me fear for the future of this game.

It's time to stop accumulating character numbers when half of them (I hope it's not that, but would not be shocked!) are RMT and a lot of the rest should belong back in Vana'diel.

I doubt this is the case.
SoF has a learning curve. People who are legitimately new to it will wipe at least once. The problem is people going into SoF drop when they zone in, or drop after 1 wipe, so there's no opportunity to learn for them with one consistent group.
Plus some people just don't care. They want to finish fast and move on. SoF doesn't have any tangible reward after the first time other than tomes, so there's not a lot of drive there.

[Starcade]

I doubt this is the case.
SoF has a learning curve. People who are legitimately new to it will wipe at least once. The problem is people going into SoF drop when they zone in, or drop after 1 wipe, so there's no opportunity to learn for them with one consistent group.
Plus some people just don't care. They want to finish fast and move on. SoF doesn't have any tangible reward after the first time other than tomes, so there's not a lot of drive there.

Some of us wiped to it far more than once, and with people who wouldn't listen if you threw the damn instructions up on neon signs.