Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
My point is that Square-Enix may expand FF14 Trusts beyond just those dungeons if they feel like the game has hit FF11 levels of a playerbase that can't get content to pop reliably, especially when it's not just dungeons that can cause a player to be halted in the MSQ but currently no Trials and Crystal Tower doesn't have NPC options either. As someone from Maduin, I can assure you it was never the difficulty of CT and Susano that stopped me cold for days, but rather the fact that there weren't enough people on Dynamis doing it, and even when I traveled to Aether/Primal, it still took awhile because I play later than most. Perhaps that's ONLY an issue for Dynamis (and a personal one with regards to schedule), but considering its the data center they try to funnel new players into and it's been an issue here for over two years now... well, it becomes difficult to just tell people to data center travel instead if Aether/Primal/Crystal start to clear out too.

I've heard both that they did and did not plan to shut down the PC version of FF11 if the mobile version came about, so admittedly it's not something I was ever really certain about, and the subsequent cancellation of the mobile version made it moot anyway. But it was still an example of Square-Enix possibly not wanting to put all their eggs into the PC version, and if not for the decision to make FF14 an MMO and the "intended successor", we might very well have two different versions of FF11 right now.
I think they probably will expand duty support to include all of the trials. AFAIK the plan is for full MSQ coverage.

FFXIV was already in Heavensward by the time the mobile version of FFXI was announced. It wasn't cancelled until 2018. It being cancelled wasn't really anything to do with XIV, it was just SE being SE and managing projects poorly.