Originally Posted by
Delsus
What you fail to realise is if SE was just after profit Wada would have pulled the plug on FFXIV in Dec 2010. It wasn't Wada that rushed the game out, it was Tanaka (being the director) that said it was ready for release.
I do agree it was rushed out, but that wasn't for profit, Tanaka was under the delusion that it was ready for release. You fail to realise that the amount of staff involved with FFXIV could be added to other projects at the click of a finger, projects that would make SE more money faster than FFXIV, I admitedly said at least 4 years but looking further into it, they will make no profit for at least 6 years which is a long time and SE could have gone under by then.