i don't think your community really went anywhere

i mean. people always talk shit about world of warcraft's community and how everyone in that game acts like a douchebag. but if you played the game on an rp server or something, the type of people you encounter would be very different compared to the types you would encounter on a highly populated pvp server.

point is, ffxi wasn't popular. ffxiv is popular. final fantasy is a popular franchise, a revamp of a game so bad that it had to be taken down and remade, but still retains a lot of the great things about oldschool MMOs that made them great while mixing in modern systems is a pretty damn good selling point for a game if you ask me.

the game attracted a lot of players from different games that have, i guess, a different "game culture".

your community didn't go anywhere. it's just being overshadowed.