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Campaign was broken from the time it was introduced and has never really worked right. I don't think it's really fair to call it the perfect co-op system, given how many completely different iterations it's had, especially given that no one was happy with every single one of them. Hell, when campaign first came out, it heavily favored melees and screwed over mages. Then it heavily favored idlers and @#%^ed everyone else. Then soloers, then idlers, then anyone with good AoE, and at it's present state, the only way you'd really be able to excel is if you could tank, but then the level cap went up, and the event just died. TBH, I've always preferred besieged to Campaign, but that's entirely my own bias. Besieged was plagued by all the same problems, and I'm certain reives will be absolutely no different.
The difference is that with campaign, the people who managed to gain "advantages" were those who were exploiting the system. Honest players who simply wanted to participate in the event could get plenty of exp whether they were dealing damage or curing others. There was never just one way to play campaign. On the flipside, only DDs can have any real success in rieves, and mages can't even rest their MP without getting slaughtered. It's a broken system for people who want to honestly participate. Campaign worked just fine, until SE had to do something to stop people who chose to exploit it, and even then, it remained much more workable with mage jobs.
The other thing about campaign is that finding new/ongoing battles was easy. Getting from a campaign battle back to town was easy. The battles were more exciting, with a nice variety of NMs that showed up, and different NPC groups that came to help. And, best of all, you could participate in a campaign battle regardless of whether you were playing solo or in a group of 20. Campaign was perfectly set up to engage in group or solo play, without penalizing players for not having as many in-game friends, or for not being able to play during peak hours.
So, yeah... take out the idiots who exploited campaign, and campaign was a far superior co-op system compared to rieves.