Unofficial Census 2016 for FFXIV

[Vantol]

If you and your 54 friends that all stopped raiding during Alex for it not being rewarding enough, what were the big rewards in Coil that kept you all enraptured that Alex currently lacks?

First to say Yoshida promised Coil gear to be still relevant in 3.0 and also promised ilvls to slow down, so we thought we can just get to 60 and raid Alex in Coil gear (eh?). And second, the real problem, no one expected SE to drop "unsync" thing on us. We spent sooo much time beating Savage Coil to have those unique titles till the end of game. Now anyone can have it, no value in it.

Exclusive access to the Coil story, arenas and bosses?

That too. What's wrong with exclusive content when you put so much time and work into getting it?

[Zojha]

What's wrong with exclusive content when you put so much time and work into getting it?

From a developer point of view:
What's the point of putting effort into content only a fraction of the playerbase will ever see? That's like making a product for a tiny market at the same or bigger cost you could make a product for a big market - with the same payout per product, the sub fee.