FFXI on Switch 2?

[Alhanelem]

FFXI counts directly towards the success of XIV,

And XIV counts towards the success of XI. You have no point. By your own description it's just one number, so it doesn't matter what they label it as- it's all the same to investors. It's a single umbrella that contains both.

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.

This is a gross overestimate of XI's contribution, and it really pales in comparison to what FFXIV takes in, so it really would not matter much at all if FFXI went offline tomorrow. And investors, who do not care anything about the specific content of the games or how beloved a game like XI might be to its fan base, probably would celebrate them shutting it down. Which, as we already know, was considered last year.

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

It's not blatantly obvious, and the financial reports prove nothing. CBU3 gets and spends its money how it wants. No individual dollar is identified as specifically coming from either game. Stop pushing this nonsense conspiracy that we're being "used" to' prop up FFXIV or something like that. You can hate on FFXIV all you want, but this is a pointless discussion. And again, NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING REMOTELY WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE TOPIC AT HAND. We are speaking of things we might want as fans, not of what will bring supreme financial success to SE.