Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
You do know this is the same game that director encourages people to unsub if they get done everything they want to do right. You all have a warped view of how money in a company works.
Our subs do not keep this game running.
Our subs 100% do, trust me everyone unsubs, the game will shut down. It makes them money, alot of money, so development continues. If it stops making them alot of money it gets put on maintenance mode. They are a company if a project is not profitable anymore and has no chance of being profitable it will be shuttered and resources will be invested elsewhere. Even with the FFXIV 1.0 failure.. it was only redone to protect the IP from permanent damage. 3.0+ happened because it the remake was successful and made them money. $$$ is everything in a corporation. We are lucky SE was looking longterm at the franchise and not just ffxiv as a game or this would been shutdown before 2.0 ever launched.

As for Yoshida... his comments on unsubing if you run out of content and wait to a new expansion/patch is one of the underlying problems with this game and why there are such large fluxes in playerbase. A healthy mmo should never run out of content for anyone, this is a resent problem in mmos and due to casual focus with long development time. MMOs have to have longterm content to keep the playerbase engaged for the long haul, ffxiv has none.