Quote Originally Posted by Rinuko View Post
For some reason the zones in ARR felt more active than HW and SB. Maybe cause they were smaller? Everywhere people ran fates/grinded for their zodiac weapons. Maybe cause game was fresh?
The zones seemed more active because players had nowhere else to go. FATE grinding for alternate jobs and Relic grinding got you back into a world that had no other maps or areas to go through. The game was fresh and people weren't level 70 and bored, they were level 50 and discovering new things to do with each patch. And every patch had you moving about in all those areas again.

This is the fate of the MMO: The old world remains, but you move on.