Quote Originally Posted by Aylis View Post
While granted I haven't played since WotLK, from what I gather from playing fly on the wall when friends talk about WoW. It seems that this is largely due to the game showing its age of sorts. Where it reached a point where it had to shake up game play and re-invent game play so much to the point where the story progression was the first thing to get altered.
I think you can do that without a retcon a patch, though. It became pretty clear when they stopped giving a damn and just went "eh, just rewrite what already happened to suit what we want to do next, that's easier."

I don't think FFXIV would go the same way. Sure, stuff will get shaken up. But they've shown a lot more reluctance to retcon and a lot more willingness to plant things ahead of time to get to where they want to be... aside from overusing "oh they didn't really die!"

THAT is getting real old.