Fujito interview with 4gamer.net (LONG READ)

[Arciela]

The attitudes of entitlement are so ridiculous with some of the most vocal remaining fanboys. You are paying in exchange for a service. That doesn't entitle you to some personal notion of respect. It is an exchange, and that is it. Thinking you are supposed to get your feet rubbed or something after the fact and that they are supposed to keep doing what you want or forever develop the game is ridiculous.
You are "demoralized" because you refuse to accept the way things are. If they pulled the plug on the game you would still sit there posting about FF14 and how they should have put more into 11 and blamed people like me for saying you are full of it.

I agree people like them act entitled and there the same people who would be the types that would attack the devs for the various things they did at various points in the games history like the salvage bans. Then they demand respect from the devs when they show no respect for the devs. The people demanding respect has the most karen levels of "i want to speak to your manager" levels of entitlement with there demands. People always seem to put blame onto ff14 and its community for them putting 11 in maintenance mode and thinks that if ff14 didn't exist they would still be putting massive resources into 11. I'm sad the game is going into permanent maintenance mode but I'm glad the game is still running, and they decided to not pull the plug and the game is still preserved for the foreseeable future.