
Originally Posted by
Alhanelem
The only context in which this is true is that htey never would have made FFXIV Online if they didn't make FFXI Online.
As I wrote in my previous post, Only the money actually budgeted for FFXI is obligated to be spent on FFXI. The rest is profit, and SE can spend their profit however they desire. Even moving developers around doesn't change this fact. We didn't fund FFXIV with FFXI more than we funded it with any other Square-Enix product we might have bought. No funds earned by FFXI were explicitly allocated to FFXIV. They all go into SE's coffers where it can be collectively spent with all of their other income.
I'm really tired of people making this argument, it simply isn't true for one thing, and it also creates a false implication that wasn't being worked on or developed in any way during that time. It was, and therefore any assertion that we were directly funding FFXIV instead of FFXI
It's all irrelevant anyway, because SE has the right to spend its profits on whatever they want to spend them on, Are we supposed to hate or resent SE purely because they wanted to build a new MMO? FFXI was largely a successful project, why would they NOT want to try another project like it in the future?
From the beginning they had only planned to develop FFXI for a certain length of time, and even with the existence of FFXIV, they ended up developing for it far, far, far longer than that. So the truth is, far more of the dollars we spent benefitted the game we were playing than SE had originally planned for. We should be happy about this, not resentful.
Ultimately, I fail to see the point in making the observation you made, even if it were accurate.