Stop Making Should-Be Achievement Gear.."Optional Gear"

[Belhi]

While I believe SE made a statement saying that the cash shop helped facilitate the upgraded EU severs, no such statement was made for the NA servers. We also have no proof that the new NA location will be better. The cash shop may have funded the new NA servers, and the new NA servers may improve things, but we can't say yet that either of those things is true.

They tripled FF14's budget for SB. For that to happen, the development teams had sufficient financial data to convince the corporate side of things that the investment was worth it. We are getting a lot system wise. I seriously doubt FF14's sub numbers have increased to the point that would justify it otherwise. Upgrades and moves like that aren't cheap and they are on top of the usual development costs.

This is the reality. If we want more for FF14, the games earnings have to be high enough to justify it. That means either A) a lot more players, B) a higher sub fee or C) additional revenue streams.