Everyone is praising the 5.5-month patch cycle!

[Mapleine]

Feels like most of the budget for the game lately goes to Yoshi P traveling around, giving interviews that have no information or discussion in them. After XVI and Dawntrail I think the studio would be better served with a period of introspection.

XIV is starting to give off that vibe XI had after WoW had been out for a few years and the devs didn't have enough resources to compete so they gave up and just maintained what existed. I really hope we don't keep going down the same path of slow decay.

[Daralii]

Feels like most of the budget for the game lately goes to Yoshi P traveling around, giving interviews that have no information or discussion in them. After XVI and Dawntrail I think the studio would be better served with a period of introspection.

XIV is starting to give off that vibe XI had after WoW had been out for a few years and the devs didn't have enough resources to compete so they gave up and just maintained what existed. I really hope we don't keep going down the same path of slow decay.

They're already making another new game(there were interviews around XVI's press cycle about how many XIV veterans were being moved to it and other future projects) and are overseeing an XIV mobile spinoff that Tencent's making. With how long it takes to get a game to market nowadays, a period of introspection would probably be 5+ years away.