Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
And they will. People in your social network will get bored of the game and move on. Then they'll stop coming back for good. One by one, people will vanish. The more haughty and arrogant Square Enix is, the less the game improves, the more we stagnate, and the sooner this game dies off. Your communities will be dead and you'll be stuck asking yourself: why did everyone leave? Let it be known that we told you the reason why and you didn't listen. Hopefully Square Enix does before it's too late.
Strange how you call the player base a dying community when the player population has increased each expansion.

Strange how friends who laughed at the idea of playing this game 5 years ago are now giving it a try and *gasp* enjoying themselves. For them, it's not an hour of game to play every 4 months. Even those that have been playing for over a year are overwhelmed by the amount of content they haven't even touched yet.

You can continue with your fearmongering but it's going nowhere. There will continue to be a healthy number of people playing it in the future because the game is new to them alongside those who continue to play it because they still enjoy it.

You remind me of the conversations in the WoW forums going all the way back to Cataclysm (and I know others say the conversations predate Cataclysm but I wasn't paying much attention prior). "WoW is doomed, WoW is dying. If the developers don't make this change I want then it will be dead and it will be the fault of other players who didn't want the same change."

WoW isn't dead yet even though a decade has passed. It may not have as many players as it had back in Cataclsym but it's still got a healthy population and profitable as a MMO. Many of us moved on because we didn't like the design choices made and no longer enjoyed the content but our departure has not killed the WoW community.

It will be no different here. We may all move on eventually but the community will survive long past our departure.