Development Team Downsizing and Justification Makes no Sense

[Alhanelem]

No it isn't, and its a fact.

This isn't a fact in any way shape or form, and you don't have any ability to prove it. There is nothing in your post whatsoever other than opinion, and a heavily biased opinion at that.

If you use the word "fact," you need to cite your sources.

So why bring it up?

You brought it up yourself, so ask yourself that question, I guess? The point was, there is a reason it got cancelled, and while we don't know the exact reason, the most likely ones are either disagreements between SE and Nexon over development or the business side of things, or simply that cost-benefit analyses were not favorable to continuing with the project.

False, especially considering they are practically considered the same entity under business reports.

Are you Pixela's second account or something? We've been through this a million times already. The fact that the individual games aren't listed on financial reports means nothing. They're grouped together because they are run by the same business unit at SE under the same director and for no other reason. FFXIV does not need FFXI's player numbers, which are absolutely insignificant against FFXIV's, nor its income, to post favorable financial reports- FFXIV gains absolutely nothing from this statement of yours. If anything, this "arrangement" (it's not really fair to even call it that, because as I said, it's as simple as "the same business division runs both") is beneficial to FFXI as it means it doesn't really need to even meet any financial goals. And SE has stated its intention to keep the game running for the forseeable future so a mainline FF title remains playable. This absolutely facilitates that.

There is literally nothing more to your post than "I hate FFXIV and resent its existence so I'm blaming everything on it." (And just like Pixela, you're suspiciously unable or unwilling to cite your sources)

FFXI was already declining before FFXIV even came out, and no, it wasn't simply because people knew it was coming. If that was the case, when XIV 1.0 flopped hardcore, why didn't FFXI see a player influx? It was in every way the better game at the time.