the normal content is too easy

[Ronduwil]

What content with mass appeal? They hardly even appealed to the mid-core community, let alone the hardcore players. Them turning the game into a visual novel with baby's first MMO gameplay isn't going to keep people around for long.

Yeah, it's so unappealing that they're regularly having to suspend sales of the game to avoid overlodading their hardware. You don't seem to understand what mid-core actually is. Average is average. An average player is worse than the top 49% of the playerbase and better than the bottom 49%. An average player is barely better than a bad player. From the descriptions in this thread, what you're likely referring to as mid-core is better than 75% of the player base. That's still a high end player. Also, where do you get the idea that numbers are down? People are logging in less frequently because they've finished the MSQ, and as I've said time and again, there's no mass appeal in the repetitive end game content that you want the rest of the game to emulate. Just because I don't log in every single day anymore doesn't mean that I dropped my sub. As soon as the patch drops, you'll see the insane queues again.