As an FFXI player, thank you for Limited Jobs and BLU SE

[Fawkes]

It was a niche title that never achieved any sort of significant recognition beyond the distinction of being the most widely-played Japanese MMO in the world.

The success it enjoyed was entirely due to the _________ IP, and having the (at the time) commercial juggernaut of ________ be able to continuously throw money away to support it.

So like pretty much every game ever, then?

It was well over a year after the game's initial release before it attracted enough subscribers to break even.

It launched in Japan only and came out in North America a year later.

If that game had been released by any other company you would not even know it ever existed.

Yes I agree, if it was a different game entirely it would have been much worse.