Quote Originally Posted by Nel_Celestine View Post
that's gross, not net. Factor in the cost of other projects being developed by SE, building costs, power costs for servers, business taxes, international fund conversion, etc etc.

Is the company making money? Yes. But are they making 360 million net profit a year just from FFXIV? Not on your life. If extra funds from stuff on the mogstation goes to getting more talent for XIV and other SE titles and vise versa I have no issues with it.
Money is money no matter where its going or how it's spent. Any profit made by SE goes back to SE to be spent on whatever projects and programs they wish to develop. Your right that it's income vs expenditure but it is true that FFXIV has made SE profitable again for 2014. Also I'm not against the cash shop as a method to sell services or unique items that aren't related to a games feature. If SE wants to sell a Morbol mount for 15, they can go nuts. It's only when its premium access to game content where I draw the line.