Naoki Yoshida recent interview

[Akiza]

I think Naoki Yoshida's view on the future of the mmorpg genre is incorrect. The F2P model and native app type games won't be the future of MMO's becasue by then the genre will have no meaning. Since consoles developers have gone with always online and connected which started with the origianl X-Box MMO's have peaked and gone in a state of decline. Final Fantasy XIV is just the twilight of the MMO genre because it launched when all single player games have an online multi player component which dilutes the MMO experiance. Even this game can be considered a single player game with heavy mmo elements all thats needed is a few tweaks to gameplay and some jobs. The term MMO has no meaning now since they can be looked at as single player games with hubs where players can instance with other players.

[Tuathaa]

The term MMO has no meaning now since they can be looked at as single player games with hubs where players can instance with other players.

That's because that's the way the created this game. They could have just as easily made it a true multi player game where duties and leves could be completed in a group but chose not to.
There are some directions blizzard went that SE shouldn't follow.