How is the game for returning players?

[Shneibel]

So I started on day one, had a blast for a while mostly with crafting and gathering, and only got a conjurer to 28, then I quit because I was frustrated with the fate grind and how easy it was to level and do everything.

you better not return then, becaues it is "easy" to do everything at lvl 50

ps: lvling is easier but everything ? I need to think twice before say that

[DoubleT]

it is easy to catch up, they nerf the game every 3 months to allow everyone to catch up to the current new content

[Cyrus-Wallace]

I gave it a try and decided to come back. Although I see quite a lot of people running around, and the two duties I did had a pretty low wait time, which means the game is far from dead, I went the entire day and saw only TWO messages in chat. I have never seen such a populated MMO chat so dead. Chat was so dead that I actually had to check and make sure I didn't accidentally mute shouts, say and zone text at some point and then forgot about it. I don't know what happened, but it's kind of depressing. Not even a single FC recruitment spam or a gold spammer.

Depends on the zone. For example, in Mor Dhona/Limsa/Coerthas I usually read some conversations between several players, besides the FC/Party recruitments requests. With the PF system, there're less shout requests for that stuff and people usually spend time chatting on their LS/FC. It also depends on the server, as TurnBased stated. And welcome back!

[Bruiser_Cruiser]

I resubbed last night and played for the first time in about 8 months. I spent about 5 hours straight playing doing fates in northern thanalan and I also ran 2 dungeons. I had a mother trucking blast Im only a smidge of XP away from 50 WHM, my first 50 w0o0o0o0t!