My thoughts:

- The subscription model is one of many reasons that the game is not filled with potty mouth kids (adults to).. so I would not get rid of it.

- FFXIV should just split off from Square, keep all it's own money and use it to make the game better rather than keep giving it back to Square to waste it.

- The FFXIV game engine is definately at it's limits. This is more obvious when you realize a swing on your house doesn't move, or the back door to your house doesn't let you in. Or when mods make the game ten times better and they tell us not to use them so you end up just waiting for things to get better.

- I think MMOs will never die as a type of game, it's just become much more rare that good ones can get made. Companies are into alphas, betas and whatever other word that means never going to finish because they want that money fast. MMOs can strike it rich, but it takes ambition, patience and talent. These are not as common in today's culture probably because everything is so convenient.