Originally Posted by
Alhanelem
FFXIV is already getting an expansion announcement within a year regardless of what happens with FFXVI. Maybe you're not aware but the Fan Festival is coming up and that's when they will announce it. But it has been in development since the last expansion launched. It's not even a secret. FFXIV's next expansion is not contingent on FFXVI's success, at all, whatsoever, period.
FFXVI will have little bearing on either FFXI or FFXIV's future. You really shouldn't worry about it whatsoever. It would have to bomb on a worse scale than FFXIV 1.0 did (and it's hard to bomb worse than that) for it to matter at all. It's not even an MMO and can't directly compete with either MMO for players. I really don't see why you're so concerned about this.