Reverse WoW exodus

[TDawnstar]

WoW have been trying to perform better these last few years to restore the players' faiths and the numbers. Now it's FFXIV turn to do the same.

I doubt it's even possible. The resources are not even remotely comparable between the two, I am afraid.

[Voidmage]

I doubt it's even possible. The resources are not even remotely comparable between the two, I am afraid.

I don't know.
What CBU3 lacks in funding they have in goodwill of the players.
FF14 devs don't have to do much for the people to be happy just stop stepping into poop which they did quite a bit lately.

My opinion on all this:

A strong WoW is the best thing FF14 can have right now. The game has gone quite some time without any real opposition and it shows in parts.
There was a certain air of superiority in EW and thinking like they could do no wrong and the players would just eat it up.
They have already admitted fault with the combat design in dungeons, overcasualisation and lack of stuff to do in EW. Even their golden cow of job design was admitted to be wanting (what they do with that is to be seen).

No matter how much Yoshida want's to sell that as their own ideas in interviews ("we fell asleep in dungeons", "we think jobs are to samey") it was due to feedback in EW that got louder and louder and culminated in content creators.
DT's story for example might be a leftover of that.

So yeah, I think it's good they get competition again even though I will stay with this game for the forseeable future.