Darth Howie said: Squeenix makes a profit on this game because they haven't actually been really working on it since it was announced. Its team was pulled to work on other titles on a regular basis, especially FFXIV. They've probably spent less on this than you'd think. FFXIV on the other hand probably costs around Star Wars TOR amounts of money; money that they're probably going to lose.
Onyx said: FF14 is such a black (red?) hole of money right now that you might as well just try to salvage any possible revenue you can get from it;. Unless someone has a history eraser button and can erase it from the space-time continuum.
Darth Howie said: Given the way the MMO market has gone lately, I wouldn't count on FFXIV getting its money back any time soon. It will need to differentiate itself enough from WOW, Guild Wars and FFXI to pull get new gamers, and they'll need to be interested in subscription fees. Final Fantasy doesn't have as strong a fanbase as it did when FFXI launched and MMOs in general are a glutted market with most MMO players inclined to stick with the games they're already playing because that's where their friends/guilds are. It will need to work hard to legitimately win long-term players. If they come from FFXI, Square Enix doesn't win because that's revenue transferred from one game to another. That's barely a net win for them outside of selling a game box. They need new players to win and, from everything I've read, FFXIV isn't a game changer.
Zubis said: All the hardcore people in FFXI just quit today because of butt hurt in a version update anyway.
