It's time to put XIV to rest....

[Zaniel]

FFXIV should be f2p with QoL subscription

And yet, the two biggest MMOs and longest running both run on subscription models while all those F2P models either struggle to survive or have massive whale communities spending vastly more than a subscription on a regular basis. Combine the populations of WoW and FF14 and I'd say 50 million subscribers disagree.