Why I'm choosing to Scan'a'Trout instead of doing Vana'Doubt.

[Alhanelem]

They already are. Have you looked at the stats for that game the past couple of years?

Yeah, and it's doing fine. We know you want FFXIV to die, but it's not. The current expansion is probably the weakest up to this point, but even then it's still bigger than FFXI ever was at its peak. WoW is also enjoying a popularity surge with its latest expansion, but that can all change with the next one.

This forum is full of purists who hate FFXIV merely because it exists, so of course you're going to spread doomy doom doom stories about it that have little basis in truth. FFXI has nothing to blame for its decline but itself, as even the obvious failiure of XIV 1.0 didn't see a player rise in XI.

I've maintained a continuous subscription to XI for the vast majority of the last 20+ years and I will be here in some capacity to the very end. But I'm not going to pretend XIV is bad just because the community resents its existence.