99 Weapons Rant (yeah yeah another)

[Natasha]

SE will keep FFXI running as long as it makes them money; they're a business remember. The day SE considers shutting down XI is the day that they don't have enough subscriptions to cover the costs of server upkeep and maintenance.

When KFC started selling the ever popular extra-crispy chocobo they didn't just stop offering original recipe. As long as the revenue coming in from demand exceeds the costs to produce a product or offer a service, they will continue to offer it.

This isn't exactly true as they could figure they could put the people who are doing the upkeep on ffxi on a MORE profitable project and shut it down for that reason.

[Jasonw]

This isn't exactly true as they could figure they could put the people who are doing the upkeep on ffxi on a MORE profitable project and shut it down for that reason.

Right,they wouldn't want to risk letting there new MMORPG go down the pan for the sake of supporting both games when they can shift there full effort on to the game they think is going to have the most long term success.

But my other idea against what scribble said is that if it is the case they will let the game still run as long as it's making a profit why pour millions of $$$ into another mmorpg title when the last one is in a healthy profitable state?It's because no mmorpg hold's it's subscriber base for years on end and eventually they got to make something new to hold interest of not just old players but new-alike.