Quote Originally Posted by Nav_Fae View Post
Well FFXIV's design philosophies are fine.
That may be, but it's not the reason the large viewership streamers are playing the game.

Large viewership streamers are playing the game because that's where the views and therefore the money is.

Those large viewership streamers started looking for new games to play because they were getting bored with their previous game or their previous game fell into a bad scandal and they needed a new game to play while the scandal blew over or not or some combination of reasons either mentioned or not. They stuck with streaming FFXIV because they got tons of views for it. If the views hadn't been there it would not have been a main focus of their streams if they even streamed it, though they may have continued to play the game off stream.