"Final Fantasy XIV helps drive revenue spike"

[Barta]

https://massivelyop.com/2019/08/06/s...ncial-results/



Amaaaaaazing, it's almost like if you don't waste time making ten billion vertice potted plants .....

Or changing the project goal every week....

Or spend ten years fantasizing and forcing your perfect waifu on everyone, despite her awful personality, which doesn't sell well internationally....

It's almost like... *gasp*

You can make a decent and well recieved game, with the smallest amount of common sense!

You might even get to release a game with a complete story that doesn't chop out entire chunks of narrative and toss them in anime, movies, and DLC that will never be released.

Oh gosh! Whodathunk it!

Now let's all see if this success sparks greed and laziness, leading to a downward spiral in content quality! http://https://youtu.be/UqIqSi3iy8Y

[Nalien]

Once upon a time I'd be glad to hear this, figuring an increase in XIVs budget was due, affording the dev team more talent to provide more content... Haha... Ha... Ha...

Nope, if anything XIV is due a budget cut... More money for VII, personally I cannot wait to see what happens first; SE breaks even on the VII remake, or the heat death of the universe.

Good for XIV though, I wonder if it has/when it will pass XI as SEs most profitable title...

[Demetri_Delethorn]

The news that FFXIV is doing super well deserves a far better post than you wrote.

[foussi]

Breaking news: Countless of ff 14 players were found wigless over amazing news, yoshi P uses money made through shadowbringers to buy new hair for the players.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Breaking news: Countless of ff 14 players were found wigless over amazing news, yoshi P uses money made through shadowbringers to buy new hair for the players.

Viera and Hrothgar players left out; "We're working on it".

[Esp]

I see you were so proud of said post..you made it twice..

Couldn't get the Pikachu image in huh?

[TankHunter678]

Oh so the OP is poking fun at WoW. Took me a bit to decipher that.

[ErryK]

Please don't tarnish XIII just to get your extremely obnoxious post, and whatever point it was trying to make across.

[Noodle_Trinidad]

That's great and all but given the fact that we're more than likely going to see a repeat of more of the same, i'd argue a cut corner version of it especially with the new races, what does that really matter to me the consumer?

The game driving a revenue spike is great for company heads and shareholders but as a consumer who hasn't seen any meaningful growth to the game itself since the end of Heavensward this means nothing to me. We're more than likely not going to see an increase in quality or quantity in regards to most non-MSQ content and will more than likey see further use of the system's limitations as an excuse as they keep building up technological debt.

At this point they've already fallen back on the "Patch it Later" mentality that Yoshida himself noted as a sign of failure for devs in a GDC following the reboot with Hrothgar and Viera. Sure the story is great and the music is top notch, and Ishikawa and Soken should be proud of it, but exactly what has been done at all in regards to this game's evolution given that it stays to a rigid formula after 3 expansions of player increase? Practically nothing since HW set the formula. The revenue will more than likely not affect the game and we'll more than likely see the same stagnant endgame with minigames added here and there.

I ask again, why does this matter to me the consumer?

[Mikhaill]

Who is this awful waifu you speak of?