Quote Originally Posted by Milea View Post
Have they ever gone into why they chose this route? You would think when the game gets praise, wins awards and player numbers go up they would give more resources not less.
I don't think they've ever directly said so (that would be a PR disaster) but the idea is to have diverse revenue streams so that the company is still healthy even if one revenue stream suffers. A lot of SE games have flopped though, so in hindsight that money would have been much better spent ensuring that XIV is a reliable financial backbone of the company.