Quote Originally Posted by Anova View Post
One question:

What happens when SE decides not to make another expansion and make a brand new MMO (because of technology or financial reasons)? What if the story proposed is not even close to finished and SE has to wrap it up within the next patch release?

I don't see any solution to this that will end well for the story and make the audience or the writers happy.
have there been any example of this happening though, XI is still going strong apparently.

That said I assume that the devs (or at least the lore team) would discuss this with the business side of things and prepare an ending to this in advance in case this happens