Not that I fully agree with the OP but people who think that because a game is not an MMO it is not competing with FFXIV are wrong. Most people play GAMES in there spare time for fun, FFXIV is a game and so does have to compete with every other game for people to decide what to spend there time playing. Just because something is not in the same genre does not mean it is not competition. I dare say that a fair few people who play MMO's also play other games including offline games in other genres.

So if there is a huge line up of games that you want to play like the OP wants to then he would have to choose what to spend his time playing and if FFXIV does not have enough to keep you entertained then you will play something else. If it turns out that they end up spending more time playing these other games then they will most likely cancel their account once it goes pay to play. Then that is a problem for SE as they will lose subs if they don't have enough to keep people playing. It's ok at the min with it being free as people aren't as bothered and can go play other things without paying a sub, but if they were paying it would be a different story.