Quote Originally Posted by Thi View Post
No.

With WoW on the decline the devs know that XIV is the only non f2p cashgrab MMO on the market so there is no motivation to deviate from their vision on anything.
WOW is technically on a Decline, and has been since 2010, so nothing new there. The fact a large public exodus happened over the combo of Bad End Game Grind, Terrible events made worse by terrible lore, and the Company being filled with misogynistic pigs, caused people to publicly leave, many of which are filtering back to WOW for the new raid content. Because 3 months is the maximum length for people to be angry and to publicly protest. Sure a large sample size came here, and even a fair percentage will stay around, this is however not the first time FFXIV has benefitted from WOW outrage, and it wont be the last.

I personally came over here on the "No Flying in WOD" announcement, and went back to WOW 5 months later. Of course I did both games until Shadowlands Prepatch, I refused to go from level 120 to level 50, F*** that. Odds are is Microsoft fires Ion Hazzikostas I will return to playing both games.