What would make you return to ffxi? (if you left and came back for the free access)

[Alhanelem]

The game did make that much money, its one of their most profitable games to date. Try looking it up sometime before you make ignorant statements. Low numbers doesn't stop them from creating games that flop like a few of theirs have been. I can't imagine how doing an MMO that made them so much would be a bad idea. They could even go with another company like they did with nexus but for PC.

Profitable as a percentage, yes. Profitable in terms of total raw cash, I doubt it. That only speaks to how poorly some of their other games have sold, not how much money it made them.

Try looing it up sometime before you make ignorant statements. This game is not generating enough money (anymore) to make that kind of investment. I don't think you know how much it actually costs to develop hardware. Perhaps if they've held on to every single dollar they've collected through the game's history, yes. But that is so unlikely it isn't even funny.

The cost-benefit analysis of redesigning a PS2 development machine would be astronomically bad. Have you ever heard of a cost-benefit analysis? It is essentially asking the question, "If I spend this much money on this, how much will I get in return?" It doesn't even matter how much money the game made, if they don't see a strong enough return on investment, they're not going to do it. You're living in a fantasy land (okay, the joke's on me I guess) if you think that investing probably millions in developing obsolete hardware in order to be able to promise new content updates past next spring is going to bring enough players back / gain enough new players to be worth the cost. I'm not even sure they got enough out of the expansion for it to be worth it, considering the lack of impact it had on player numbers even in the short term.