If you continue to dumb down the game, you will lose half your player base

[SamsaraTrickstar]

They've finished the FFXIV story. There will be a little extra padding for the die hards, but now they are clearly shifting focus to make the game more suitable for the many millions of solo FF players who skipped XI and XIV.

They could well lose 50% of MMO players, yes, but they will gain 10 times that number in solo-players who can then experience the story from ARR to EW.

There was one tiny hint to the wind down of the game in the last Japanese live letter, #70... Yoshi said "I hope we can still make it to live letter #100". Which goes against the "10 years more" and brings it to a much shorter period. Enough time to push the solo players through.

That where you are wrong. This solo players leave after a month. Nothing solo players hate more that a unfinished story in an rpg.

[Shibi]

That where you are wrong. This solo players leave after a month. Nothing solo players hate more that a unfinished story in an rpg.

6.0 finished the main story. That's stated by SE.

The changes now to make ARR and onwards more soloable is also stated by SE.

I expect we can expect another huge trimming of ARR and Post ARR quests to happen in coming patches to speed up the boring parts and help retention. Because ARR and post ARR is still mostly a boring pile of steaming cow poop.