Naoki Yoshida interview @Gamescom

[Myleus]

Sometimes i see white knights....

Out of jokes, there is no assumptions in the interview that Yoshi-P wants to maintain the real playerbase, the dedicated raiders. Vanity,diadem,PotD,Gold saucer minigames,etc are their priority.

Tanaka with FFXI made a more focused game with a deep system and still the game lives today. The life of FFXIV won't be the same in this way. The raiders will only come back 1 month after every expansion and the story repeats itself.
Why they only put effort when the things goes bad like before ARR? Now with more money they become more lazies