Yoshi stated XI was given to him to run in a vana interview.
They forced us to move to the payment system XIV made. When I play XIV, I used the crysta I bought for XI to pay for a month there. nobody can use it to pay for DQ11.
They stopped counting any profits XI makes on investor statements, DQ11 is still counted.
Many infrastructure staff from XIV work on XI including gms and server staff, not anything else in BD3. This would never happen unless profits from XI goto XIV to pay their wages and so they are allowed to do that.
They are one and the same, XIV is the flagship MMO and XI is run as part of that product.
You're wrong, I don't even need to go beyond the fact that XI has not been counted on any financial report for many years when much smaller games are. That alone tells you the story because on a financial report they have to tell investors how much money any of the products they spend money on is making, UNLESS its operations have been merged with another product.
Merging XI into XIV operations was a massive success, not only because it allowed the XIV developers to save a ton of money re-using assets but also because they get the profits and player numbers tacked onto their game for any financial reports. Both games profit from this situation.
A reason all of this is good is becasue XIV players don't see XI as competition anymore, they are one and the same.