what makes an MMO fell dead

[Fyrebrand]

I know a lot of us groan at getting Crystal Tower raids all the time in roulette, but the fact that I see multiple first-timers on the regular in there is an extremely positive sign regarding the health of the game. Same in leveling roulette, there's often a first-timer there too.

I decided to plow through a whole ton of Guildhests on an alt job for the completion bonus earlier today, and I did every single one with only a few minutes queue time each, or less. This was on a DPS job. This tells me the game is not just very alive, but strongly thriving.

Beyond that, any city I go to I see lots of people. The reddit is incredibly active. Even the parody "shitpost" reddit is active. FFXIV is doing well, folks.