Just because it worked for ffXIV does not means it will work here. After tonight’s dev response i have 0 hope for this game, they doubled down on the shity changes and disregarded all the feedback.
Do you know what will actually happen of they shut this down, and keep paying devs while trying to make the game marginally better without any source of revenue in the meantime?
If they were to shut it down they would never come back. This is their last chance to make a decent game as they have failed many times before to even launch one. But it is dying, 75% player base lost since launch this fast is not good. Even if you give incentive to return later you dont get even half of the players back cause they dont have faith in you anymore.
Worth mentioning that there aren’t many reasons to play this game over other MMOs either - most of it’s features are shallow and/or have been done better by other games, why choose this one?
Part of the reasons it got 900k players is because the MMO playerbase strives for something new and exciting again, but it clearly wasn’t fulfilled here. The moment servers shut down the Sunk cost fallacy of many players will vanish, they’ll play something else and probably stick there instead, and so on.