Quote Originally Posted by Stormpeaks View Post
say you want to see the game die without saying you want to see the game die
It depends. If the 'venue' and 'mod' crowds left, the development team would be forced to design content with staying power. It's something that they've proven capable of doing in the past so I don't doubt that they could do it again if backed into a corner. They just lack the incentive to do so when a not insignificant portion of their subscriber base play the game as something completely different to what it is intended to be.

I do think it's something that'll backfire in the long term. I know quite a lot of people who have mentioned, in passing, that they never bothered checking out FFXIV precisely because of how much explicit modded screenshots of the game are floating around on social media.