Do players still have a voice in the direction of development for FFXIV?

[Codek]

Final fantasy XIV ARR was released August 27, 2013 (24th for early birds). Fact.

WoW had roughly 10 mil subs during last years beginning. Well known fact.

Wow has been dropping exponentially since then. Also fact. http://www.maximumpc.com/world_warcr...n_players_2013

Considering many people look for an mmo after leaving another one (which is common knowledge and practice) it is safe to assume they saw arr, decided to come to this game and walla! The subs we had at launch.

Current game, considering the drop in people logging in (different for each guild), forum complaining, and how much more silent it is (less spam) at certain hubs, Its safe to assume through logic there's some fall in the subscription base. Personally I'd love to see SE release sub numbers just for the curious. But i doubt they would.

Mostly fact and some easy observation and a little bit of common sense (aka no rose colored glasses).

I can further increase you basis of a conjecture by including the support that players were also leaving other games such as GW2 and SWTOR (both of which stole a decent amount of players from WoW) and that further helped the re-launch of this game.

What your describing is the typical observation of the flow of content locust that plagues MMO's these days. The issue I have with your conjecture is that this flow of players is not in fact FACT. There is no way to prove the number of players coming and leaving this game simply based of other games success (and losses). It's still a conjecture all the same.