Quote Originally Posted by Hanayumi View Post
Even with the decline it still would take the collapse of SE or some insanely new MMO to actually kill FFXIV. While I do believe our voices are being heard I also believe we wont see any ideal changes to FFXIV anytime soon, I genuinely believe not even by 8.0... their development process is just that bad and that slow...
The bigger problem is that people keep playing it and paying for it even though they don't enjoy it anymore, because they're so hooked on it and have been playing it for so long that they can't imagine not playing it at this point.

Think about how many messages there are here and on reddit that are basically like "well, I at least want to finish this raid tier," or "well, I'll see what 8.0 is like before I quit for good," or "well, I don't want to lose my house," etc. The only message that sends to SE is "whatever you're doing now is good enough to warrant continued payments from me, so keep it up."

To anyone reading this that fits into one of those buckets: it may be time to cut the cord. If you're not enjoying the game anymore, you're literally just throwing your time in the trash.