Originally Posted by
fantasticdan
And my point was the game never could have. You can't have WoW style vertical progression in a game that puts out endgame content so slowly and so meagerly; people will run out of things to do and quit not long after every content update, exactly as they are now. Outside of FFXIV, that's why most people are quitting; because there isn't anything to do now outside of delve, yorcia skirmish, and monstrosity, and if you don't enjoy those/are sick of them/capped out on the gear/whatever, there is shit all to do, because nearly all other content was made obsolete due to vertical progression.
In terms of volume of endgame content to do, FFXI only stood up to other MMOs because it kept its legacy content relevant. Without that, it's a joke.