Current Problem Parallels

[Mapleine]

WoW took a fist to the chin because it slowly turned itself into a glorified KMMO and abandoned anyone who fell behind. M+, borrowed power, system upon system with no safety nets, alt mechanics or catchup, etc.

Lets not even get into how absolutely integral to modern WoW boosting and RMT with the token is.

None of these other reasons did anything to WoW, every single thing you mentioned existed since vanilla.

Tie all this together with the fact that most of WoW's content just isn't very good anymore outside of their major raid releases and that's that.

I'd imagine XIV's problems have precious little to do with anything balance related. XIV just needs some midcore content and to stop buckling EVERYTHING to the MSQ. I love the MSQ, we all do, it revived FF and it's the biggest part of the game but it needs to stop being this monolith that chains everything in the game down.