Cait Sith in Action :D

[Cowardlybabooon]

To provide a better idea of why people think the "beer money" of $13 should be getting us better updates/progress, lets actually look at it from a player base perspective as a whole.
Servers: 16
Players per Server: 1,000 (low number imo but gives you an idea)
Monthly Fee: $12.95 (let's pretend no one has extra characters)

Now for the math, I'll keep it extra simple!

$12.95 * 1,000 = $12,950 * 16 = $207,200 a month

If anyone honestly thinks FFXI costs that much to maintain/update you're, um... uninformed, that's the nicest way I can say it.

I don't want to continue flame warring over this because people's minds aren't going to change, but how could you call people uninformed about that. $207,200/month in revenue is not going to buy you too many $100k/year computer programmers after all benefits and costs are considered. In your defense, there are way more than 16,000 active accounts. According to the 2012 census which doesn't say how many total accounts there are, there are actually over 16k people who have Relic weapons. 10,000 of which were obtained in the last year.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/gui...nsus/11/4.html

You may be right though, they may have just forgot about Cait Sith and recently been randomly reminded when some dude in a board room was like "Hey guys what about Cait Sith and Atomos" and the Dev team was like "Oh shit! We did forget about that! Eddie get on that, next subject."

Edit: Correction, yes that's 16,000 relics, not 16,000 people with relics, but still implies a large number of players given that my best estimate would be a generous 50% of people have relics these days.