Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Immortal]

It's called cutting your losses, when a big project fails they have to save money from any source they can. Which is what happened most recently I'm pretty sure.

Where is your evidence, sources.

[Alhanelem]

It's called cutting your losses, when a big project fails they have to save money from any source they can. Which is what happened most recently I'm pretty sure.

Where is your evidence, sources.

I already cited my own google search (whose 1st search result was the playonline website), the other source is this forum.

This has nothing to do with cutting your losses. As I said, FFXI was already declining before FFXIV. The death of FFXIV 1.0 did not boost FFXI at all and it really should have. Now that last bit IS partly opinion, but it makes no logical sense that a bunch of FF fans (whom *allegedly* came from FFXI in large part) with no game to play would not come back to FFXI, even temporarily.

Yoshida could have pulled the plug on FFXI. SE's main offices put forth the idea of winding down the game. He actually wanted to save it, and he did. Source: the WE ARE VANADIEL website. Read over the interview with Naoki Yoshida.