Quote Originally Posted by Blissa View Post
What is sad is this game makes MILLIONS every month, what are they doing with the money?
If you think SE is letting the XIV team keep even a tenth of those profits, you have no idea how a large conglomerate business works.

All profits from XIV are remitted back to SE, and SE then apportions them back a chunk of them in the form of a yearly budget. The XIV team was lucky that they're not officially paying off 1.0 (they wrote that investment off) - if that was the case, the game would still be in the red.

As it is, they're profitable to the company, but SE does not and will never let them keep 100% of the money from monthly subscriptions.