I guess it's time

[Obysuca]

There's another factor to consider as well: Overall playerbase size. Currently, FFXIV is far larger in terms of player count than FFXI ever was.

By "far larger" I assume you mean only about 100k-200k larger >_> XI peaked at around 500k-600k ish, XIV's got about that, maybe 700k ish. Don't go off of the "4 million accounts" that SE's mentioned. Accounts =/= active subscribers. Let's also not forget, part of that 700k ish are rmt. Also, just to point out, did you notice that when you search all on XIV, it won't tell you how many are actually on, like XI did? Kind of makes you feel like SE doesn't want people to know how low it really is.