Square Enix Financial statement: DT 42m USD DOWN

[Uncle_Jafar]

I don't understand what they're doing. FFXIV is their golden goose and seemingly has been for a long time. I would expect them to be trying to make it the shiniest, most successful game they can in order to rake in the biggest profits they can. Instead, this golden goose is slowly being starved while resources are put into failed projects, NFTs and other stupid stuff. Why? What am I missing?

They are moving on from this game and planning to gut it for profits. It's really obvious.

[Raven2014]

They are moving on from this game and planning to gut it for profits. It's really obvious.

No, they're seriously not. With the new server infrastructure upgrade and the graphic engine upgrade they did for DT, the obvious thing is they do want to commit for another 10 years. The last time you see something like this happen in WoW was when they decided to can WoW 2 and stay with original WoW.


What most of us are discussing isn't about SE is abandoning FF14 because they're not doing that. We're frustrated at the fact that instead of using the profit to take the game to the next level, they seems to happy to just do enough to maintain the status quo, which is a problem because after 10 years it does feel the game is reaching a stagnant point if it doesn't have a major breakout soon.

[Astronis]

No, they're seriously not. With the new server infrastructure upgrade and the graphic engine upgrade they did for DT, the obvious thing is they do want to commit for another 10 years. The last time you see something like this happen in WoW was when they decided to can WoW 2 and stay with original WoW.

While I agree it does not look to me like SE is moving on at all, it wouldn't be the first time I've seen an MMO get a bit of a graphics overhaul and whatnot only to find out not long after that it all really was done to milk the very last drop of money and good will out of a very loyal customer base. That game in particular was plagued by monetary mismanagement from the get-go, though, and never was able to make much money; FFXIV is not the kind of game that can be torched to the ground like that. If SE does do that to FFXIV, it will be self-destructive to an absurd degree. The suits at SE would get better PR setting their own office on fire while running out of the burning building holding bags of yen.

So, yeah, they're not doing that. They are very possibly not giving FFXIV as much love as it should, and very probably got some dumb ideas about what to finance next, but there is no way they're planning to torch it for insurance money.