Okay, looking at the FFXIV hate. To the arguing that it is objectively bad, a word with a subjective meaning ‘bad’ can’t be objective, what you mean is you and people who agree with you hated it, that’s fine, I hate WOW and have tried it many times, so I can appreciate we will all have our hates, even when plenty of people disagree. Hell even what is considered good game design is subjective.

If it’s success was purely on it being an FF title, FFXIV would not have been such a massive flop to begin with, even then 1.0 had people who genuinely like it. I still play XI from time to time because I enjoy it, I don’t believe it was perfect but there was a lot that I loved about it. The same with XIV.

As for how much it grossed in the first year, it was still not the flop XIV was. XI grew and XIV rebuilt from the ground up to be the two final fantasy titles to make the most money. So they must have done something right. How well something does in the first year is not necessarily a measure of its success, but perhaps is the kind of thing to make shareholders and investors feel easy.