Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Exactly this.

It's consistently amazing how people wanting to be right about things will latch on to anything they think supports their view of them being right...but how few people scrutinize that to be sure it DOES.
Right about what, exactly? This thread is about the way internal perceptions of SE's ongoing struggles and FFXVI's underperformance may influence FF14's development going forward. It's just a place to speculate; My initial thoughts were optimistic that XIV might receive more internal attention because it's a consistent earner that the new CEO seemingly has an affinity for. I understand that every single thing you do and say is just a contrivance created to serve your weird internal narrative, but you need to understand that not everyone operates like you do.

Quote Originally Posted by Renathras View Post
Investors aren't looking at SE "making FFXIV braindead" and thinking "Oh no! We must pull our money!". They're looking at SE doing a lot of random things and their game producers and devs taking risks and going "Oh no! I don't want to risk my money, I want my money to go to routine, tried-and-true blandness with microtransations so I can be guaranteed a consistent profit!"
If they're smart, they'll look at the content model that was in play when the game generated the hype that actually helped drive EW's initial boom. EW itself is a risk they've taken; They've substantially slowed down the patch schedule while replacing a few popular systems with demonstrably less popular ones.