hello. It's been a while since my friends and I have considered playing this game again. We quit the same day the level cap was raised to 80 because we knew the game we loved was about to change and weren't sure what to think about it. Anyway after playing FFXIV since 1.0 and since it's recent release last august, I am the only one still playing FFXIV out of my friends. They all quit because that game lacks many elements we enjoyed in FFXI including a real end game. At least until an expansion comes out it looks like.
Anyway I was wondering how the game is now compared to when the level cap was 75. Is the game still fun? Is there a lot of things to do for a level 99 character? And being level 75 at the moment, how difficult would it be to reintegrate ourselves into the game? (Some of my friends need to start over but we will be helping them out).
I would also like to know if there are any in depth guides I could read about everything that was added since the cap was raised past 75, and what things I should doing. I never entered abyssea and havent been keeping up with anything FFXI related for years. I looked online and couldn't find anything in depth that I'm looking for. If anyone could link me something that would be much appreciated.
The last thing I would like to ask is about server population. I understand some servers are starting to see less people logging in. Are there any servers that still see 2k+ people logged in? We would like to go to a server thats populated if at all possible. We are currently on Fairy server (I believe thats where we are now our old server got merged I think).
Thanks in advance for any information you guys can give me!