Is the MMO sub model outdated?

[Pixela]

Nothing you said countered anything I said, it's blatantly obvious that XI was merged into XIV operations in a way DQ11 was not. I've listed many indicators that blatantly show that to be the case, including yoshi p saying tanaka asked him to take it over himself. The reason this is good for Square is because they can get what they always wanted from us ff11 players, we effectively moved to ff14 without moving. They never mention ff11 anymore at all in any way, because we no longer exist as a separate entity where dq11 as a jp only online game does. They merged 11 into 14.

Originally I was kind of mad about this, however there are positives to this as well as negatives. The main positives are that all the infrastructure staff don't have to be duplicated, so costs are lowered significantly, also ff11 is going to be kept alive for a long time because it's part of 14 and they won't ever want to lose it as an asset, another is that ff14 players are going to be far more accepting of a game that is a effectively just part of their game and that benefits them and theirs. If 1 million people started playing ff11 tomorrow for instance, ff14 would get 1million new players to brag about and all the revenue. There would be no announcement at 1 million people extra playing ff11, because as a seperate entity it does not exist.

The thing to remember about business and the reason ff11 is a very profitable asset to ff14 is not because of its size (although it's a popular game compared to the rest of the market with 50-60k players all paying to play), as shown by financial reports before the game was merged into ff14. Success is not how much money you make or how many players you have, success is how much profit you make. It does not matter if you have way more players and make way more money if your dev costs are significantly higher (they are on 14), this is why only recently (keep in mind the profits 11 makes has not been counted for many years and so if the numbers had been continually updated 14 still may be behind 11) 14 overtook 11 as their most profitable game ever. Even though it never had millions of players.

Here is what you can do, since I've listed a ton. You tell me what makes you think they are separate entities at square enix. Tell me what convinces you that 11 is its own unique entity with complete autonomy as dq11 has. The developers have even stated they need to put in requests from the ff14 team when they have spare time to make things for 11, including textures and programming help lol