Will you still be playing this game when it inevitably enters maintenance mode?

[Tranquilmelody7]

After the last expansion releases, and no more major content is planned?

I probably will tbh.
I've participated in several online games up their closure, and I intend to do the same with FF14.

I will probably let my house get destroyed, how ever.

To clarify, I don't think this game is anywhere near it's sunset era - I just occasionally ponder how that time will be when it occurs.

[Enla]

I still went back and played LoTRO even when it was clear WB had stopped caring about the game and before it got sold to Daybreak. I still had fun with SWTOR even though up until recently it wasn't sure if the game would ever see a proper expansion again. I will likely still be here even as the game slowly peeters out and it's fanbase moves onto bigger and better things. I enjoy it more than enough to stick around.

[Callinon]

Depends if there's still stuff I want to do.

[Reeereee]

Given SE's track record there will be a new FF MMO coming at around the time it goes into maintenance, I expect I'll be moving on. Once the story is over I don't see a lot to keep me playing.

[Rufalus]

I will still do some stuff casually at that time. I think when the community shrinks and everyone knows each other it gets more friendly, less ragey people around, so it's a different kind of experience that's better in some ways despite content production slowing down.

We're 9 yrs out from V1 now and I'm guessing this game has about a 20 yrs lifespan of updates. Sounds like a lot but I think this game is a special case and there's the precedent of S-E still supporting FF XI right now with minor content updates 17 yrs after launch (so far) and with a planned transition of that game into a new mobile version in the future. The way S-E support FF games it might outlive me lol.

[Xatsh]

With the way the game is designed probably not to be honest. Mainly because content is short lived. So when it does go into maintenance mode I will have done more or less everything.



I will most likely move onto their next mmo when this one releases its final expansion... as long as it is not a mobile game.

[ElazulHP]

I'll likely be moving on after finishing the story for the last patch of the last expansion. Probably would be another Final Fantasy MMO by then to tempt me away too.

[linay]

If there are people to run contents with, then I can keep playing. There are contents I haven't done and may never do as long as there is something new to try, so might as well try to run them when there is no more new contents.

[Mistyregions]

I will still do some stuff casually at that time. I think when the community shrinks and everyone knows each other it gets more friendly, less ragey people around, so it's a different kind of experience that's better in some ways despite content production slowing down.

We're 9 yrs out from V1 now and I'm guessing this game has about a 20 yrs lifespan of updates. Sounds like a lot but I think this game is a special case and there's the precedent of S-E still supporting FF XI right now with minor content updates 17 yrs after launch (so far) and with a planned transition of that game into a new mobile version in the future. The way S-E support FF games it might outlive me lol.

20 years? No way the game engine will be way to outdated. I give it till 7.0. On top of outdated everything the story has to end. It's a final fantasy game not a new season of One punch man, we cant just find new incredible super enemies. It becomes dull the second I realize there is no end game and no matter what there is a new "baddie" and its piss poor storytelling to boot.

[Cidel]

With the way the game is designed probably not to be honest. Mainly because content is short lived.

Biggest factor for me.