Quote Originally Posted by Turtledeluxe View Post
It's very possible that all of the "next 10 year" talk was just empty rhetoric and SE anticipated a decline, secretly plans to sunset the game long before that.
Whenever I read about the "10 more years" for XIV, I think back on the original Phantasy Star Online 2 and how the director about 6-ish years back talked about celebrating a 10 year anniversary. This ultimately coincided with the disaster that was Episode 5 which irrevocably damaged the game to the point where Sega chose to move onto New Genesis after Episode 6 failed to salvage 5's damage, which from what I've heard is even worse. Though I guess in the end the original PSO2 did get to enjoy a 10 year anniversary... In maintenance mode.