Quote Originally Posted by Tsuwu View Post
It forced users to populate the overworld running content that would be virtually abandoned otherwise.
Notice Atma was timed to align with the PS4 release, when a new surge of players were coming in.
You may very well be right, but there's no reason to keep the system around now. Especially as heavily RNG as it is. If you implemented my system from the start, it'd have the same effect at populating low level zones :P. Also, a bemusing anecdote: I had multiple PS4 players tell me they lost interest in the game because "end game is so boring, all I saw was raids of 30 people killing level 10 npcs.".