Quote Originally Posted by AlexionSkylark View Post
Hey, it's not even me saying, it's Yoshida-san himself!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...otivation_and/
You are twisting Yoshida's words, the context is people getting burned out, he never said "only sub for the story and leave after", if the story was the only good thing of this game they wouldn't invest so many resources in the 95% of non story content that covers the patch notes. He doesn't want people getting burned out from doing the same content over and over for the 3 to 4 months between major patches because that means a permanent loss of a player in the long term.

Quote Originally Posted by AlexionSkylark View Post
Case in point, World of Warcraft - There you have it, living proof that trying to cater to a mainstream audience is not the best way to go about for a MMO. And while WoW declines and declines, FFXIV with its strong focus on the dev vision keeps getting stronger and stronger.
Are you talking about the moss successful MMORPG in history? And the MMORPG that still has the highest playerbase?