No New MMO Yet From Square? Why Havent They Seized The Moment?

[Swordsman]

with no guarantee they'll convince the existing FFXIV playerbase to move over.

Yeah, this too. Some of the more diehard fans have probably sunk tens of thousands of hours into this game as well as hundreds of dollars into glams and mounts. They'll probably be hesitant to abandon that all unless SE allows some things to transfer over.

Even announcing a new FF MMO basically signals to people that FFXIV won't see as much attention.

I can actually see some FFXIV players even opposing the idea of a new SE MMO because that means their favorite game will no longer be on SE's pedestal