FFXI on Switch 2?

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On every financial report since 2016 any player numbers and money XI makes is counted towards XIV.

[Alhanelem]

On every financial report since 2016 any player numbers and money XI makes is counted towards XIV.

It doesn't "count towards IV" it counts towards Creative Business Unit 3. And this makes sense. It operates both. They may combine the others, but XI money isn't treated as XIV money any more than the other way around. You can not pin a particular dollar as coming specifically from either game, and im so sick of people pushing this narrative that XI players are simply funding XIV, just because they're lumped together on a financial report.

The game still costs money to operate and the money it makes pays for those costs.

And regardless, none of this is relevant to the topic of bringing either game to a new platform.

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It doesn't "count towards IV" it counts towards Creative Business Unit 3. And this makes sense. It operates both. They may combine the others, but XI money isn't treated as XIV money any more than the other way around. You can not pin a particular dollar as coming specifically from either game, and im so sick of people pushing this narrative that XI players are simply funding XIV, just because they're lumped together on a financial report.

The game still costs money to operate and the money it makes pays for those costs.

And regardless, none of this is relevant to the topic of bringing either game to a new platform.

FFXI counts directly towards the success of XIV, every penny it makes and every player it attracts is directly counted towards XIV to boost it up in the eyes of share holders on every financial report. Even many of the staff work on both games, like the GM team, moderators, community teams and even server staff.

I don't know why you argue this when it's blatantly obvious to be the case, every single financial report proves it.

I'm not even saying it's a bad thing, I'm saying that helping XI be more successful helps XIV and so it should matter more to the company and share holders. XI is not a forgotten game that doesn't matter, it directly helps XIV and does matter.

If XI closed tomorrow, XIV would in effect lose 60k-70k subscribers and the millions of dollars the game makes a year from those players (on a very cheap dev cost game btw) on every financial report going forward.

That would 100% matter to share holders and the CEO because XIV is put on a pedestal as a success story, and it losing that number of players and money out of nowhere would be a big deal.