Quote Originally Posted by Wasselin View Post
If these WoW "refugees" you are assuming XIV didn't keep are the reason player number is down, how would they have kept them? Change the game fundamentally to keep them and thus alienate their long time players? Or if it's because they "had nothing to do" after burning through four expansions worth of content do you think SquareEnix is somehow going to start releasing content at 4x the speed as the past?

It really doesn't make sense, and Striker44 is right that if they did leave they were never going to stay to begin with.
Most of them joined during an expansion famous for its hilarious lack of content and strangely long patch schedules

Rel adding more content to satisfy more players isn’t fundamentally changing the game