Healer boycott in 5.0

[Maeka]

The population in MMO after MMO declines b/c people assume as much. Don't be so sure. When it stops being fun, we find something else to do with our time and money.

..... and the vocal minority tends to be just that, a minority.

The people you see on the forums is less than 1% of the paying subscribers, and a good number of them are more than happy to play with the changes as-is, or are confident that tweaks will be made that things will get better.

Even if you took the entirety of the FFXIV Reddit users, it's still such a small slice of the game's actual population.

I'd say that the exit of some of the more vocal minorities could actually be healthy for the game, as these are some of the players who tend to nitpick and whine about the dumbest things.