I guess it's time

[Vantol]

http://www.siliconera.com/2013/11/06...tasy-xis-peak/

This was 3 years ago almost.

Yeees ...
1. That's "paid subscribers", not the profit from game lifespan. Now let's sit and watch FFXIV to last for 14 years (not).
2. If you read this thread, there are calculations, that by 2015 this number droped to 200k subscribers. And that would be one of the reasons this thread (and many others) exist.

P.S. Also this article actually says, that out of 1.45 million people who bought this game, only 600k (<50%) decided to keep playing after free month. On release. Considering all those tomes and dungeons being fresh and interesting, full of hope and promises. That sounds to me like horrible result.

[ZorySantill]

Yeees ...
1. That's "paid subscribers", not the profit from game lifespan. Now let's sit and watch FFXIV to last for 14 years (not).
2. If you read this thread, there are calculations, that by 2015 this number droped to 200k subscribers. And that would be one of the reasons this thread (and many others) exist.

P.S. Also this article actually says, that out of 1.45 million people who bought this game, only 600k (<50%) decided to keep playing after free month. On release. Considoring all those tomes and dungeons being fresh and interesting, full of hope and promises. That sounds to me like horrible result.

Assuming that FFXI had 600k subscribers for all 14 years (completely absurd assumption but lets go with it) it comes out to $15 a month, multiplied by 14 years, multiplied by 12 months, or roughly $100 million.

Looking exclusively at box sales, reported 5 million accounts created as of July 2015, lets assume they went for about $30 average counting sales and so on. 5 million accounts times $30 per account is $150 million. Already more than 14 years of FFXI, and that's not counting a single subscription, nor is it counting any purchases of Heavensward, or even sales for someone playing PS3 upgrading to PS4, or to PC and so on.