Quote Originally Posted by Delever View Post
How come this happened though? That's truly a shame :/
In the environment of hardcore progression, ever since Exordium disbanded a few weeks after the launch of Final Coil the overall 'bar' for progression on Phoenix has been drastically lowered and at no point has any Free Company stepped up to take back that very same mantle and as a result, the 'quality' of raiding on Phoenix as a whole has suffered, as there is no incentive for players to come here for progression reasons. Ultimately individuals who hold progression as their sole focus will always drift towards servers that contains the majority of the likeminded players, which causes the competent raid capable individuals to who lose their statics to act in this very same manner.

With the advent of EU servers, while I remain hopeful that Phoenix will see a definate influx of new players due our vast casual population I fear that this won't help remedy the overall situation, as servers such as Ragnarok or Cerberus just offer so much more to a progression minded player who's actually doing their research of which server to move to.