Do you think square enix will continue making new MMOs after this project?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I dunno why people say MMOs are a dying breed. You can't account WoW's success as part of an MMO market. There was never an explosion of successful MMOs because, for some reason, WoW didn't add to the MMO market. It just created a WoW market for some reason.

Those 100 million accounts WoW has didn't go off to play other, more personally suitable games. The just quit the genre entirely.

Actually, they did. MMO statistics have been on a substantial decline for years. Look at the sheer number of big budget MMOs that collapsed; SWTOR, Wildstar, City of Heroes, The Division and Battleborne. Of that lot, only SWTOR managed to salvage anything, though it came at a massive cost. Elder Scrolls Online also struggled substantially, but turned things around before reaching the financial implosion the aforementioned did. We all know the FFXIV 1.0 horror story. There are simply too many options and people, on average, are less willing to dedicate the necessary time investment to a single game. On the other hand, I do believe the genre will have a resurgence to some extent, though I suspect it will move away from the tab-target style altogether similar to how turned base combat has largely died out.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Look at the sheer number of big budget MMOs that collapsed; SWTOR, Wildstar, City of Heroes, The Division and Battleborne.

City of Heroes/Villians was shutdown when it was doing fine due to NCSoft closing the studio working on it likely to shift the money involved to other things (including Wildstar which was supposed to be the new MMO hotness but had been in dev for 6 years at that time). You might be confusing it with Champions Online the other non-licensed superhero MMO that went free-to-play 14 months into its life.