The slow decline of FFXIV, a summary.

[Lium]

They came, and they left within one xpac. Wow what a good job.

Which is more than you can say for every other MMO out there. And let’s not forget the primary reason they came here to begin with. It was because their game sucked.

And FFXIV remains quite popular.

[NaoSen]

Which is more than you can say for every other MMO out there. And let’s not forget the primary reason they came here to begin with. It was because their game sucked.

And FFXIV remains quite popular.

Yes it was during Shadowlands, widely considered one of the worst expansions, players were giving feedback, blizzard not listening and the story was definitely the worst.
Their next expansion, Dragonflight blizzard did listen and is considered the best expansion by many with current one, The War Within on track to beat event that.
Now you have people leaving for WOW with the graphic style being the hinderance, I know plenty more who would have jumped ship if wow was the same style as FF.

FF is "quite popular" but subscribers are going down whilst WOW's gained millions since its lowest point and still gaining.

Dawntrail is literally the Shadowlands of FF