Quote Originally Posted by Laraul View Post
How much do you think it costs in $$$ to create a new dungeon? A new raid or trial?
A hell of alot less than our subscriptions pay. Never understood this situation where people think that without the suplimentary income from a cash shop, the game is doing well enough that they are making much more money than the operating costs of the servers and the team creating content.

Unless they give us a breakdown of where the cash shop money is going (It's being invested into Square Enix's bottom line to offset other poorly preforming products, it's unlikely to say they keep the cash for sole use in XIV) The funds are not going directly into content development for the game. If it was then that's great! But it's not likely the story. If FFXIV was floundering financially they might be using the cash to suplement development costs but it's doing plenty well to not need to worry about that.