Solution to get a big playerbase once again:

[Kittie]

Sounds like you haven't really played here that long, its like Aaron said most players are here because we don't have renewal nor 3rd jobs. Honestly if we get renewal + 3rd jobs i'm out I'm sure that's me and some quite some others as well.

We like the server the way it is, if you don't like it then well its easy to guess what you can do to solve your problem.