Things that haven't been done in a while:

1) Forcing every newbie to use the chocobo avatar.
2) A decent spinoff board.
3) A melodrama over the way EoFF is run.
4) A relatively new member being Knighted.
5) A highly organised election.
6) A new (main, numbered) FF game being released in the English speaking world.
7) An eccentric character registers and isn't a second account. Bring Back General Zod! Newbies these days are too normal. Same goes for most (almost all) of us, to be fair.

At least we have the traditional "omg EoFF is boring " thread still going on once every 3-6 months!

But clearly, we need to start a spinoff elitist board leading to a massive bustup in staff and for a bunch of people to walk out and therefore Knight a few more people by way of a highly organised election featuring many eccentric newbies with awesome chocobo avatars who joined because FFXII just got released in the US.