Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
I would say also to be fair, though, the WoW that FFXIV 2.0 modeled itself after is very different from the WoW of today that caters to the M+ and high-end raider crew. It's actually the shift in focus that caused WoW numbers to plummet.
This.

Today's wow is literally a game that caters solely to raidloggers and the entire design is based "but if we give good rewards to casual/solo content our raidloggers will complain" so casual/solo content is both underdeveloped and unrewarding, and let's not even talk about the abomination that is today's story, I heard their new xpac's "casual" content is "flying" xD

FF14 is thankfully a far different game to WoW and that is why it has beaten WoW, it caters to everyone and doesnt treat raiders like somekind of special class of player, it has a decent story, it has fun and rewarding casual/solo content and now they are even starting to explore pvp as well more seriously.

If FF14 was anything like today's WoW people wouldnt have massively moved to FF14 during shadowbringers.