dev1031 You are losing your main playerbase by making things too easy/fast/casual

[Abriael]

My point was you keep bringing up time sinks when the time sinks had nothing to do with the losing of players.

The timsinks have a lot to do with not getting new players. Losing players is pretty much inevitable for every game as boredom ensues and new games get released. The only real way to offset it is to get new players in. Nowadays' market simply doesn't support timesinks and new players simply don't chose a game that wastes their playing time when they have many alternatives that don't.

Timesinks = Losing old players/Not getting new players -> Population bleeding
No timesinks = Losing old players/getting new players -> Bleeding amended

Mind you, we already know that FFXIV will *not* go back to FFXI's timesinks. Yoshida and the team know very well than to save this game they need to give people more ways to *have fun* instead of boring them to death by making them spend their playing time waiting.