Now that the game is officially on its deathbed, what are your thoughts?

[Mawlzy]

a couple thousand? did you actually check your facts? the time between 7.2 and 7.3 had always HUGE drops not only a couple thousand and like i said you cant literally count the last few years in because of all the WoW player and covid like Catwho said earlier, when do people understand it? the 2020 numbers are the real numbers

I guess it's conceivable that the intrinsic limitations of the game mean that it cannot maintain a player count above 2020 levels.

The problem is that the quality of the game is manifestly getting worse, both in terms of the cadence of content release and the quality of that content. I'd love to be proved wrong, but on its current path there is no way FFXIV will even stabilize at 2020 numbers.