Quote Originally Posted by Veliaire View Post
The money is coming in. That they CHOOSE not to use it to enhance the game that made it is NOT an excuse.
This is basic corporate finance. If you can get the same return on a product by spending less money on it, why would you ever spend more? Not to mention that new projects always need up front capital in order to just get off the ground. Every game that Square makes, XIV included, needed to get funds from the profits of games previously made, or from subscriptions being paid, in order to pay the staff making the game.

There's certainly a team that looks at the potential return on investment and decides that more races doesn't equate to higher profits after a certain point, and so requests for additional funds to enable the creation of those races will be denied because they're simply not profitable. Yoshida and his team don't get the money then hand over what they're not using. They're allocated a budget by people above them and have to work within it.

If anything you can say that they CHOSE to use the money that XIV was making to fund the development of the 7 remake, and XV. Yes those games ended up turning a profit post release, but the entire time they're in development, they were losing the company money on staff salaries, and that money had to come from somewhere else.