How SE thanks its current player base

[Ophie-Mio]

Some folks have valid reasons to be annoyed by this. Every time there is a free log in weekend, the extra players taking up server space cause some paying subscribers to experience heavy lag spikes, disconnects, log in wait queues and other nasty side effects that they normally don't get, sometimes making the game almost unplayable for them. I actually happen to be one of these people. Usually during free log in weekends, for me the lag is so unbearable I get disconnected every 5-10 minutes. (Yay 90k's! ._.) If this didn't happen, I wouldn't have a problem with free log in weekend.

This. While I am for expanding the population of the game, the fact remains that SE gives away a free month already and wouldn't have to offer such weekends if they managed to keep their content relevant to the point where the players actually feel like it's worth it to subscribe.

Free log in weekends are awful to the long term subscribers while they are happening. Heavy lag spikes makes most content unplayable, I get disconnected very often, and quite frankly, I see more than enough baby players when it's not a free login time to think that only two free login campaigns a year is enough.

That being said, the Gold Saucer is not enough content to suddenly make a veteran player be all like, "OMG! I need to resubscribe!" It's just not enough content, which is the main issue of why people leave the game. There's not enough to do besides gear based vertical progression that is grinding. Once the grind gets pointless, people leave.

And yeah, I'm not anti-social... I just prefer to play the game freely without any disconnects or lag spikes that's caused by an influx of people who KNOW they aren't going to continue to play.