Quote Originally Posted by Xaruko_Nexume View Post
Calm isn't necessarily good though in an MMO. Some of my most exciting memories in MMOs and gaming in general where big giant scenes with everyone there ready to go with some new patch or event, that the servers may or not be able to handle. The disconnects are frustrating at the time but looking back its still good memories.
There is no good solution on that though, unless you make people skip all story to get into the current (like wow does), but in a storydriven MMO like FFXIV, that wouldn't work - not in a good way anyway.

So if you been away from the game like OP said for years or just joined the game, how would you realistically be ready for the next expansion day 1? You wouldn't.