Thoughts on a shared subscription?

[Alhanelem]

Is it fact that 100% of the income FFXI generates goes to supporting FFXI?

No, it's not a fact of any game or any studio/publisher/developer.

All money earned goes through accounts recieveable. Money earned by a company goes to all of their pojects, they don't specifically allocate the dollars that came from X project to Y thing.

The only way 100% of income goes to the project that created it is if it's a non-profit company. If 100% of your proceeds is reinvested into the project, then it isn't profit.

SE has to make a profit. And profits can be spent on anything. This was true before FFXI, was true during it, and will be true after it.

It is unreasonable to expect 100% of the money you pay to go towards whatever thing you paid the money for when you're dealing with a for-profit company.

Every game, including FFXI has a budget, or cost to operate. That cost includes development, servers, staff, etc. As long as the game is earning at least that much money, then in that sense, yes all the money goes to FFXI. Once the income exceeds the budget, we have profit. Profit can be spent on anything, if it's specifically for FFXI, then it would still be part of the budget and therefore isn't profit.

You'll often see ppl say "they aren't spending the money on this game, they're funding other projects." The more accurate thing to say would be specifically *profit* is being spent on other pojects. The game has a budget and that budget is exactly how much money is being spent on the game.