Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
The game will be perfectly fine, but at the same time letting a goldmine like the WoW exodus slip through your fingers is a rough blow for any business. Endwalker really needed to go big and be the best expansion yet..
The game was doing fine before Activision/Blizzard blew up their WoW player base. A/B is doing things to bring them back. Not every WoW player will suddenly abandon FFXIV either.

Anecdotally speaking, I played both games side-by-side for four years, running from Warlords of Draenor through the first year of Battle for Azeroth for World of Warcraft and A Realm Reborn through Stormblood for Final Fantasy XIV. I lost interest in World of Warcraft. I remain subscribed to Final Fantasy XIV.

This isn't a zero-sum industry, where There Can Only Be One.

The influx of new players is very welcome. The sudden desire to "improve" the game by changing it to become more like WoW in order to "keep" those new players is not as welcome, mostly because the so-called WoW Refugees aren't the backbone of the FFXIV player-base.