Things sure have been stale around here...when is the next major patch ?

[Theodric]

I wonder how much of the issue is due to the development team being distracted by projects unrelated to FFXIV?

[yukiiyuki]

I wonder how much of the issue is due to the development team being distracted by projects unrelated to FFXIV?

Well, even Yoshi himself working on 16. So yeah, almost no hopes left that this game will grow bigger, if next expansion wouldn't be a big thing with many changes, popularity will go downhill. Especially when we're getting answers like they don't have time/money on improving the game experience, graphics, netcode issues. But for some reason we're getting more gpose features, performance stuff, yet another minion game, maybe update for fishing stuff that will last for 2 more weeks and nothing more, nothing to be excited about. The same old stuff, same dungeon(s), same bosses in circles, no deep dungeon, (even a copycat like HoH was). The last hope is new eureka, that's really all what left to see something creative and interesting to play not just once from them.
Competitor to WoW, it's finally time to shine said people and then we got this, 1 million players so we can have boat fishing and round cup in cutscenes with detailed water, impressive.
Well, what you can expect, when the savior of the game don't even work on it full time and have other big project.