Young players are not going to play FF14

[Jojoya]

MMO players can't handle the fact that MMOs are now culturally irrelevant and are indeed less relevant than a random mobile game. You're trapped in your bubble and definitely do not talk to the mainstream at all if you believe that.

Or MMO players have grown up enough not to care about what is "culturally relevant" and they aren't interested in the mobile games.

They play what is fun to them, not what social media tries to convince them to play.

I'd agree that most younger adults will have little interest in MMOs these days - unless they grew up playing them side-by-side with their parents, relatives or other friends who were introduced by their own families. They're too used to mobile gaming since mobiles phones are so widespread and easy to get now while mobile phones weren't at the height of MMO popularity. They were starting to get mainstream but weren't quite there yet.

You sound like you're trapped in a bubble of your own.

[sindriiisgaming]

Or MMO players have grown up enough not to care about what is "culturally relevant" and they aren't interested in the mobile games.

They play what is fun to them, not what social media tries to convince them to play.

I'd agree that most younger adults will have little interest in MMOs these days - unless they grew up playing them side-by-side with their parents, relatives or other friends who were introduced by their own families. They're too used to mobile gaming since mobiles phones are so widespread and easy to get now while mobile phones weren't at the height of MMO popularity. They were starting to get mainstream but weren't quite there yet.

You sound like you're trapped in a bubble of your own.

most offline games have a co-op multiplay feature, so they can already feel like a MiniMMo (mh online ps2 felt this way for me, and i was addicted to it because it had other players)
Mmos imo will never die out, because they capture something that offline, non coop games dont capture. a way to hang out with people without having to go outside, doll urself up or spend large amoutns of money. i think there will ALLWAYS be a market for them. every game today has some kinda online co-op that they owe to MMOS, also some MMOS have insanly large populations like 14, OSRS and retail WOW. parents get there kids into it, friends play with other friends, after school activities. i think MMO is a healthy genre tbh, and that if making the game more like modern games gets more people into mmos, thats better all round for MMO health since the genre expands.