Why pay a subscription?

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There's a good chance that this game may completely outdo FF11 for them. Peak users for FF11 was 500,000. This game has 1,000,000 unique users and rising (according to their recent statement.) This is double what FF11 ever has. Sure you can say "The game just came out." but when FF11 came out it only had around 200,000-300,000. They would need to lose more than 50% of their current players in order to drop below FF11's peak performance. It's a bit early to claim FF14 is going a poor direction. It seems they learned from FF11 and improved upon it.

Just to make sure you didn't take my post as doubting FFXIV ARR.

I am disputing the quotee's claim of FF11 tanking SE. If anything FFXIV 1.0 is part of the reason SE is tanking. Along with the smash hit(to the junk) Spirits within movie.

Probably due to subscription's bring in revenue maybe, but they sold more copies of FF7 than any other FF game. They stopped selling FF7 or the number would be even higher. They refuse to remake it. They sold 9.8 million copies of FF7 before discontinuing it.

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I still fail to see what makes you think FF11 has caused the downfall of SE when it has brought in the most revenue to the company. Just because you push 9.8 million units, it does not mean it is the most successful. $10 a month times 100,000 is equal to a million a month. Considering it has been active for 10+ years, that's $120,000,000 minimum. That is an extreme lowball as I don't remember the sub price, and it only takes into account that only 100,000 a month for the past 'ten' years. Also, if you were to add up the 9.8 mil with the pricing for FF7, it went greatest hits in 1999 and was dropped to $20-$24. All these numbers are so basic, it's barely usable, but it should help you get the general idea.