XVII may be an MMO. If so, the trend is 2 single player FFs, then one multiplayer FF.

I doubt they or anyone foreseen the WoW rush which pushed XIV on the juggernaut WoW's throne temporarily.

My guess, they were pre-producing another online title....maybe XVII. WoW happen, they pushed it back & began full steam ahead on XVI. Not to say XVI was not going to be a priority anyway.....

Really not much more they can do with XIV, and we are seeing it in real time.

XI was once the most profitable FF game of all-time....and they moved on from it.....

.....XIV failed, and they still went full steam ahead on XIV after the fact while dumping the most profitable FF title. SoA was released due to XIV's failure imo.

Go play other games, I think that means XVI.