Quote Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor View Post
I'm not convinced FFXIV can. While unofficial censuses cannot be looked at as definitive, they're still telling. Stormblood numbers have dipped to Gordias levels, which is really bad. And I'd attribute it directly to the staggered releases of content and how niche much of its been. FFXIV just doesn't have the playerbase to float like WoW can.
This.

Moreover, XIV doesn't have the constant, floating content that WoW has. Raids and the weekly cache are the only things that can't be grinded as much as the player likes in WoW. And in WoW, PvP is actually very much a thing. That's dozens of hours more repeatable content (that many find enjoyable in itself) that actually helps character power.

I'd say it comes with the noticeable downside of requiring far longer to maintain an alt, but... compared to XIV -- if one were to make the 'mistake' of putting all gear types on a single character, thus cutting your gearing potential into sevenths between NIN, DRG, MNK/SAM, Caster, Healer, Tank, Ranged -- it's still far more lenient, and suffers from none of the unintuitive competition between one's own jobs, let alone in an irretrievable manner over time-gated progression.