Quote Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora View Post
They're not coming back without a reason to come back.

The current trajectory of content wasn't exciting enough to justify coming back. At Fan Fest, we hear the entire agenda for the expansion and subsequent patches.

Players saw it and saw the same old thing that they've done over and over again.
100% agree, but SE seems to live in constant hope that mediocre content will magically energize the player base again, hence I imagine in the 7.3 patch notes Aether will maintain congested status, even though it manifestly is not.