They will literally make diet animal crossing instead of 100 housing wards.

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Originally Posted by DPZ2

You are frustrated that they aren't immediately spending more on the things you want. Since anything that comes from the development team and Producer is considered to be A Promise(tm), I do not find it frustrating that they refuse to provide their plans for the next five years of the game.

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Immediately? People have been asking for instanced housing for years.
Your own data describe how XIV, a single game, makes up nearly a quarter of Square's net sales where their "Entertainment Sector" is concerned. I never called XIV the "savior of Square Enix" in my original post, so I'm not sure why you put that in quotes, but the amount of revenue they rake in from just this game is massive by your own admission. It's weird to me that you'd post the data and then try and downplay it in the very same post.

Imagine being a company and looking at your revenue pie chart, and seeing that nearly a fifth of your total revenue comes from a single source, and then just actively ignoring that source for years when it asks for something fairly standard because it might require a small investment in additional infrastructure. I simply can't accept it, sorry.

And yeah, I'm well aware that the revenue this game generates goes to funding other projects. Spreading risk through diversification is normal. But reinvesting in successful ventures is normal as well, and it just doesn't happen enough for what this game brings in. Genuinely not shocked either way though; square is basically Japanese EA, and like someone else mentioned earlier, they know their players have nowhere to go so they're fine to do the minimum. I just think it's gross is all.