Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
The issue is that WoW crashed down precisely because it did change, from being a casual-friendly, family-friendly MMO to the toxic cesspool that is M+ and end-game raiding as the primary focuses. FFXIV right now has been at a steady upward trajectory, with EW being its largest playerbase yet and receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews. The disastrous approach would be to completely change their focus to appease the minuscule minority that is the negative echo chamber on these forums.
Wrong. If you look at the graphs for WoW's sub numbers before they stopped releasing them, you can see they climbed nonstop up until the end of WotLK. Then, it started to dip at the end of Cataclysm. The end of WotLK is when they added the Random Dungeon Finder, and the end of Cataclysm is when they released LFR and overall started trying to make things more casual friendly and whatnot.

Note that one of the best received expansions after WotLK was Legion, which is the expansion they added M+.