Quote Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon View Post
True but if they build the game in a way to promote grouping on missions it adds to the games fun factor and more content that you can just afk while NPCs do all the dirty work isn't going to bring anyone back it'll make what small numbers we have shrink, there are plenty of active players on each server, some more then others but people will come back when things get fixed up. Adding brand new AFK missions is not the right path. It may not be XI but it worked wonders for XI's community even when that game was in the gutter like this one is, turned that game from coal to a diamond and I know it can do the same here,
I totally agree with you, and you're right that more group-based content actually lends to a better community experience which in turn would probably lead to a higher population.

I guess, ultimately, I'm just kind of a jaded MMO player who has a hard time being optimistic about this sort of thing. I've played too many "dead" MMOs with a lot of content but with no one to do it with, so I've just developed that sort of mindset. We'll see how it goes.

At any rate, I hope you're right, and that this game can turn itself around and become what FFXI was/is.