"SPARE NO EXPENSES"

[CStrife912]

While an obvious troll post, Yoshida did make that statement. Just not necessarily with the context being used here.

Final Fantasy 14 Surpasses 24 Million Players, Becomes Most Profitable Final Fantasy Game In the Series

To go one further.....its a very simple answer...how do the invest back into the game...buying and making new data centers for the AU market...expanding the NA/EU/JA worlds and will be doing that again in the summer. Investing money for a visual overhaul of the product. Remaking and streamlining a lot of the beginning to allow for a more consistent new player experience because they need new players to thrive. They can't keep depending on the end game lot because things happen, games come out, real life events or jobs or just no time in general. Just to name a few things...I know this OP is a troll with a very basic mindset and existence but eh it is what it is

[dspguy]

To go one further.....its a very simple answer...how do the invest back into the game...buying and making new data centers for the AU market...expanding the NA/EU/JA worlds and will be doing that again in the summer. Investing money for a visual overhaul of the product. Remaking and streamlining a lot of the beginning to allow for a more consistent new player experience because they need new players to thrive. They can't keep depending on the end game lot because things happen, games come out, real life events or jobs or just no time in general. Just to name a few things...I know this OP is a troll with a very basic mindset and existence but eh it is what it is

Many MMOs die because producers believe that peak subscribership is in the past and they can only retain. And like you said, life happens, new games come out, etc and the game begins its slow death spiral. SE is trying to take steps to bring in new players.

I can't tell you the number of MMOs I've played (EQ1 and onwards) that I tried to go back to and questioned how any new player could ever play this game. Some games I did go back and reroll to get that "new feeling" again. And I didn't get very far since the new player experience in many of these games hadn't changed in a decade - and it shows.