how long do you think 14 will last?

[Magistrella]

As long as they are not shutting down Servers and merging them you are on the safe side. Once that happens there is no need to panick too.

XI halved the amount of Servers in 2009 after 7 years of service and at this point they still have 17(!) Server up and running because people keep playing. To be fair, they dropped the german and french language support because it wasnt bringing in enough money anymore, but hey. JP and E are still available, Updates are still rolling out and the story still continues. That's at this point now 13 years of service. 4 Major Expansion packs and a ton of new content after mini expansions that did cots 9,99 at the time of release.

So, i wouldnt be THAT worried even if some disgruntled customer comes along with "this game is stuck and nothing changed so it still sucks" - for everyone with that attitude there is one addicted player out there that will keep playing and paying so i give this game at least until 2023, if not more

('-')/

[DarkStaoneDragon]

XI halved the amount of Servers in 2009 after 7 years of service and at this point they still have 17(!) Server up and running because people keep playing. To be fair, they dropped the german and french language support because it wasnt bringing in enough money anymore, but hey. JP and E are still available, Updates are still rolling out and the story still continues. That's at this point now 13 years of service. 4 Major Expansion packs and a ton of new content after mini expansions that did cots 9,99 at the time of release.

('-')/

Yep, but the last major update for 11 will be in November, after that it'll just be bug fixes.