Quote Originally Posted by Thorbot View Post
Every game needs to innovate. No matter how fun the formula, it gets stale eventually. That's why people stopped playing FFXI.
While I agree with the rest of your post, I will make one point of argument here. FFXI was always innovating their gameplay, at least within the limitations of their engine. I would argue the larger reason stopped playing it was its dated in a lot of ways. While I love XI and I have gone back from time to time since they have eased up on the time commitments to doing content, it's just hard to get into it because it lacks so much functionality that modern MMOs have like easy to use menus, good mouse and keyboard controls, or even simple jumping over small ledges.