FFXIV population decline continues

[FudoMyoo]

Typically, that isn't what happens. Once people are used to making a certain amount of money, they don't want to make less. What generally happens is that the devs will start looking for ways to squeeze the smaller playerbase for the same amount of money that they were making before via more aggressive monetization.

What you don't understand is, FF14 is already a failed project in 2010. ARR is just an additional bonus to SE. These core base players (like me) all came over from 1.0.

Japanese work differently and they are unlikely to change their game overnight like Blizzard. (or over a quarterly patch).

It is what it is, either we like it, or we quit and save our money.