Quote Originally Posted by Sephrick View Post
tl;dr: There's no doubt XI was a financial success. There's also no doubt that those sustained subscribers found something wonderful in their own experience. However, to use numbers produced by a company to promote their product to try and justify a very specific aspect of a service that has been running for 10 years now is flawed. Some people enjoyed level caps, some dealt with it in the promise of something else they might enjoy.

And all of that is irrelevant to XIV as the developers need to let the game stand on its own legs without making it "like XI" or "not like "XI." They now better than anyone what worked and what didn't.
QFT! I completely agree with what you said here.