This will certainly put SE's bold statements to the test that unlike every other MMO developer out there that relies on investors and subscriptions, SE doesn't need any of that to make their MMOs and can keep improving it until it's good enough. Because they don't have any of that, and won't have any of that for a year at best, if at all, ever.

Games have already been scrapped because FFXIV didn't bring in anticipated money to make them. At some point FFXIV becomes a waste of electricity, a developer team, and company equipment.

If we half the population again, we are probably looking at that point. I don't want to play a niche MMO on 4 piddlydink servers with a half update a year from some b-team developers in SE's basement, which is the trajectory this is heading.

1.18 to 1.3 have to be a series of remarkable events.