Quote Originally Posted by Talael View Post
Korean Fanfest was a few days ago and they did an interview with YoshiP, during this interview, Yoshida said that he believes FFXIV will continue to grow simply because "other games don’t have the weight of 10 years of growth behind them." This statement is concerning to me, as it seems he believes the game will keep being successful despite everything we have now (questionable story, tedious jobs, lack of content).
I can understand him to a degree, as people obviously develop an emotional attachment to their characters and the game and have established friend groups, but that didn't stop apathy from setting in and droves of people walking away from WoW during Warlords of Draenor(10-12 year mark), Battle for Azeroth, and Shadowlands.

And that he already has the story for 10.0 ready. He hopes to continue FFXIV for another 20 years.
If he's being genuine, that sounds completely delusional.