Quote Originally Posted by Rehayem View Post
No developer or producer should ever encourage its own playerbase to play other games, because it's seen exactly as is: an excuse to slow down the progress, the content and stall everything else. You can white knight Yoshi-P and SE all you want, but I have 20 years of experience playing MMORPGs, and while he may be doing this in good faith, it's actually going to backfire really fast. They're already nerfing the next tier savage, which sure, it's good for raiders, but it's obviously done so people can play the new FFXVI instead.

You can bicker with me all you want, I stand by my statement, whether you like it or not.
I know that I'm a FFXIV Fanboy but this poster isn't wrong about watching for content slow-downs, especially after the heavy new content cutting Elder Scrolls Online just did left a bad taste for me.

The content cycle getting longer, for whatever stated reason, can be cause for concern. I don't have alarm bells yet, but it does suggest some reduction in attention the game is getting.

I understand the game is old - but EW from the financials appears to be making XIV more money than ever before in the history of the game - so it's strange to divert resources away from a successful product. I understand when older MMOs just start naturally fading away into a small core playerbase like EverQuest/EQ2, but XIV was growing recently.

Again, I have my doubts that this decision is about improving the stress levels of their developers, just because I doubt any large company pays people the same to do less.