not a single player has told me to plan on raiding

[August]

Originally Posted by Sarius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And I was wrong...progression did not kill Fippy, it was the boxing and RaF that did.

Fippy did not die to progression, boxing, or RaF. That conversation and circumstance defined a group of some 150-300 people, not the 3k+ that were playing.

Fippy died to platinum inflation via exploitation thru
1) fire opals
2) eggs
3) alchemy recipes

I reported the fire opal exploit myself. Eggs was widespread as well. Alchemy was the best kept secret and was the true killer. I knew several people who pumped 10+ million into the server. To give you reference, I was the richest person on Fippy pre-exploits, or, without using exploits. My mount of cash at the peak was something like 500kpp in 2 months, which is absurd. When that exploitation went wild my pile went to near useless as it suffered a degradation of a full order of magnitude of buying power. THAT is what killed Fippy.

The fact that sony's server's got hacked and kept people from logging in for several weeks was the final straw. Fippy death had absolutely nothing to do with the raid scene, at all.