Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16

[Lauront]

14 carries the company so it will never get canceled dont worry bud

How do you reckon? It's around 15% of their total revenue - 17% in a good year - and that's the MMO subdivision as a whole. It's not insubstantial, and of course it's not the profit (they don't break this down but provide it at division-level), but... seems like a bit of an exaggeration to say it carries the company to me.

[ZephyrMenodora]

How do you reckon? It's around 15% of their total revenue - 17% in a good year - and that's the MMO subdivision as a whole. It's not insubstantial, and of course it's not the profit (they don't break this down but provide it at division-level), but... seems like a bit of an exaggeration to say it carries the company to me.

I think it's the profit issue you hinted at. I think the HD games division often loses money and runs red - and I don't think the MMO division spends as much money on re-investing in the MMOs and it gets diverted. It seems though that a lot of their profit probably comes from churning out pointless mobile games. New-gen HD games are a lot more expensive to produce than our MMO content or a basic mobile gacha game.

This is a trend I have seen in many financials (MMO financials are a weird hobby of mine), which is pretty sad.

Edit: Some of the info about their HD games losing them money is more found in interviews about their HD games, rather than broken down clearly in their financials.

The thing is the image you keep reposting is just net sales... How many people bought the game, that doesn't say how many people are paying subs or buying multiple retainers and so on even the article states that sales will probably main low until the next expansion.

Pretty sure the subs and miscellaneous cash shop/retainer subs are included in the revenue numbers for the MMO division.