How about this idea, how many of you are attached to your retainers?
To evoke the appropriate emotional response from current players regarding the end of the world, perhaps SE can do a randomize death of retainers, to make things more realistic.
Someone suggested an idea of randomize wipe of players as casualties, and of course this was hugely unpopular, even though it could be a good idea.
So this is similar, but randomize death of retainers, and then there would be a cemetery with tombstones of your retainers you can visit in 2.0. If you want to be even more realistic, there could be a chance that some of your items get wiped too.
This event would bring it that much more personal to you. What do you think?