FFXIV population decline continues

[Jeeqbit]

Support itself is maintenance mode, not "I will release an expansion every two years and five patches between each" mode.

Not necessarily. It depends how much revenue it actually generates. As I said, we were fine in Heavensward and Stormblood.

But all that isn't a realistic scenario at the moment. It's also a Final Fantasy game so people will play it purely because of that and none of the other reasons people are coming up with like "content" or "metas".

[Zackneifein]

Not necessarily. It depends how much revenue it actually generates. As I said, we were fine in Heavensward and Stormblood.

But all that isn't a realistic scenario at the moment. It's also a Final Fantasy game so people will play it purely because of that and none of the other reasons people are coming up with like "content" or "metas".

Sorry but that not how it works. The game now as a maintenance cost (due to many things) far higher than it was during Heavenswoard and Stormblood.
And another "stupid but true" reflexe about this kind of situation in most company, is that a something that for a time brought in 10 and was seen as a success, then grown enought to bring in 100 will be seen as a dying failure if it end up bringing in only 30 even if it's still 3 times better than it was and will be abandonned. I have seen this in so many companies projects, in gaming and elsewhere that I instinctly know that it's exactly what would happen.

Just look at all the studios that fired people in gaming industry because or even closed some of those studios because they "lost the economic growth they gained during Covid period" while the current economic growth is still better than it was before Covid - even when anyone with a brain can understand that Covid time was a golden age for gaming.

And I agree with you last point, that litteraly what I was saying, FFXIV becoming a static MMO in maintenance, like FFXI.