You know... maybe it is time to begin to sunset the game... but not if there won't be another MMORPG. I'd rather have a lack-luster FFXIV than no MMORPG to play at all. This game means a lot to me, so it pains me to think it may be time to slowly let this one fade, much like ffxi did... I will still play it for many years to come, provided the servers are operational. That being said though, this game is old, and only getting older. With no active open world content, or side progression system, the deeply invested player base is slowly starting fizzle out... those of us around for FFXI knows what I'm talking about... it didn't kill the game when it reached its sunset...

But it did bring upon a new normal in gaming, and a new era... final fantasy MMORPG's are rife with bumps and bruises. They're categorically flawed, but they're special. I can equally agree that maybe it is time to let it slowly fade, while also clinging onto a game that gave me my family. I say that honestly. My longest lived friends of twenty years or more came from FFXI, and together we came to FFXIV... and we will stay.

Unless there's a new game on the horizon, I just don't see myself leaving, even if it means accepting an era of what I believe to be meritocracy.