Quote Originally Posted by Dzian View Post
to be honest it doesn't matter if it was 6 years. as long as the census your looking at was pre abbyssea then zilart was STILL relevant content.. and that's the only thing that matters.. FFXI was after all a game you could take your time with.. you didn't have to get content done on day one...
The vast majority of FFXI players never did any endgame at all, and spent 95% of their play time leveling. Incidentally, the experience Eureka was trying to recreate.

Also I spent literally years trying to get people to run Garrison so I could get a Mannequin, without any success. FFXI gave absolutely no incentive to do old content. FFXIV's roulettes, on the other hand, do. The only content in FFXIV you can't just queue for and expect to get reasonably quickly are Coil, Alexander, and everything Savage/Extreme. All other content remains playable long after day one.

To be fair, FFXI didn't require you to do things on day one, either. It just required you to have a competent static party to do anything other than just level. Which, to be clear, is a bad thing.