FF14 in 10 years

[Dzian]

Incidentally, I may never get the lynxes because I think they're ugly, has nothing to do with ease/difficulty.

Demonstrates my point. They have no value to you (even aesthetically). so you wont go and get them. difficulty aside it would still be a time investment to obtain them and thus a price you're not willing to pay because they have no value to you.

its basic effort vs reward.

Value is subjective but it still needs to be there. without it there's no incentive.

[Miguel85NYC]

The game will be dead by then

[Teno]

Whether or not FFXIV changes trajectory, it will be long dead by 2034. Assuming that the entire genre doesn't collapse in on itself sometime between now and then, this is how I think the fate of FFXIV will play out:

I have my doubts that WoW will continue to release expansions after The Last Titan, their supposed Endwalker, probably entering maintenance mode around late 2028. With them out of the picture, the time would be right for a newcomer MMORPG to fill the massive hole in the market WoW would leave behind.

Assuming that FFXIV doesn't add a non-paid MSQ skip (they won't), the massive entry time sink turning away new players would only worsen, and assuming that FFXIV doesn't course correct their dev philosophy (they won't), they will eventually begin to bleed their long-time active players... especially if 8.0 comes and goes with no noticeable change in the formula.

I'm betting that XIV will either shut down or enter maintenance mode by 9.3.

MMOs will keep being a popular genre. Anyone saying that it is dwindling is delusional. There are simply other genres now, that is all. The 2005 omnipresence of wow is gone yes, means nothing for the genre.

[TakoyakiLala]

Y'shtola will become a rideable mount and not just be in Asmongold's exclusive mount collection. :3

[Chasingstars]

Alive, not dead. Worst case its going to go into maintenance mode after that where you don't get any new stuff. Instead of the initial hype of new expansions, its one of those games where the last patch, lets say 13.55, will be that sort of museum piece. That based on their current track record, they just need to implement competent bots for other content content, like savage/extreme/chaotic/unreal/ultimate, and the game will be playable and completed without other players.