FFXIV: ARR becoming TORtanic

[Conkers]

PvP games have notoriously been terrible, both in terms of net money gained by the company and over all player consensus.

PvP games are not popular with a subscription model, they're very complicated and prone to massive imbalances.

MMORPGs are primarily a failure that can't even fulfil their basic premise of keeping people interested over the long term, games like Minecraft, The Sims, LoL/DOTA2, etc do a better job at that, which is why outside of WoW (and even that is now in decline), you get flop after flop of MMORPG, that even when they start sub based are forced to go F2P because they lose players by the bucketload, whilst a PvP game like LoL has 30 million active accounts a month.

Incidentally, the only MMO other than WoW to actually grow over long periods is EVE Online, a PvP MMO, with a sub.

The MMORPG sector is a stagnant mess, because the largest segment of what is left of its playerbase, are idiots that play for shiny things rather than gameplay, challenge, interaction, etc.