Another MMO?

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But it's earning ENORMOUS amounts of money, you don't take your best cattle out back and put them to rest. And you don't just funnel all the money into medical services for everyone else, lol.

Of course they are going to make a new one. The issue is they are huge gambles, so yes, they can be huge money earners but also sink a company with them. However, They have a history of MMOs tuning into successes and as much as this game has been refined... There are still more issues than they can probably fix here. I would be surprised if the new one isn't already in the works. From what I've read it may take 6 years or so to get something decent going so I doubt they're going to wait for XIV to be 16 years old to announce its replacement.

The game right now is exactly at the point where XI was when its replacement got announced, breaking revenue records, peaking essentially, and this would be the moment to get something else going because if you wait too long you run the risk of the game fizzling out and then people get apprehensive about investing in things like this because maybe the market for MMOs has evaporated or so they think.

It's hard to get people to invest in you when the project is no longer bringing in the revenue it used to, but really easy when people can clearly see its extremely successful atm. I have a ton of achievements in XIV but the MMO has taken a direction that TBH I don't think it will crawl back out of and I can see myself retiring for a new MMO. It's just a matter of the right one or a successor to this one coming along. I've said this many times before but the graphics update and heavy investment the game is seeing right now is enough to keep me for Dawntrail but honestly when looking at the game from a macro perspective it's beginning to have so many issues I don't think they can fix them all. It's just becoming outdated. Like an old car, at some point it becomes more expensive to keep it running than getting a new one. Some issues I can think of easily are netcode issues/Inventory issues/glamour dresser issues/no time passage/zone loading/little multicore support/still DX11.