Quote Originally Posted by Uzziah View Post
I believe that they released the game about 75% through completion to recover some cash flow. They knew that they weren't going to release the game to PS3 yet. They put the PS3 release off (as planned) and told the PC community that they wouldn't be charged any monthly fees (again, as planned) until the game was worthy of paying for. They are using us as their true beta testers when the time period they called beta testing was really alpha testing.
Uhh, highly unlikely.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/201...ada_on_losses/

Speaking at an investor's briefing on the 13th (via Nikkei), Wada explained that of the 12 billion loss, about 4.5 billion came from such things as Final Fantasy XIV's reworking and the cancelation of multiple titles. Most of the 4.5 billion was related to domestic development, he said.
Quote Originally Posted by Lilith View Post
I agree that releasing the game has brought them some nice cashflow.
Yeah, a negative 4.5 billion yen cash flow is pretty nice, sure.