Time to Quit

[IkaraGreydancer]

difficult to say.

years ago I played Star Wars Galaxies, and SOE released an expansion that radically changed the game, and saw a massive amount of people leave the game, the head of SOE at the time basically said, "dont let the door hit you on the way out"

the game was never changed back. players never came back.

the response of those at the top is unpredictable if they think they are right. granted years later he said "it was a mistake" but after many years, did it really matter? nope, because the mistake was never corrected.

Yoshi isn't perfect but he doesn't strike me as the dude to say or do that. It's clear he wants to make a game folks enjoy so I don't see this scenario happening with XIV. Anything is possible ofc but this is very unlikely.
I'll also day I don't forsee 90% ever leaving this game considering most of the player is more casual. To push those folks out you'd have to take a more hardcore approach and introduce long grind that turn these folks off which SE doesn't seem to want to do.

Also Asmon isn't wrong but like...thats the equivalent of saying water is a liquid. Most companies will turn around when many people leave. So I don't credit that logic to Asmon and I think that's what Carin means