Stop Hand-Holding me!

[Abriael]

{sniff sniff} I smell the post of someone who is vainly trying to back up the fact he was talking out his @$$.....

I'll spell it out for you.

You said they were a commercial failure.....they clearly stated they were making a profit.....

also just so happens...free or not.....more ppl played it than ffxi....just sayin'

How does that smell? Smells like victory to me.

LOL. You really mean to compare the number of subscribers of a free game with one that requires a monthly fee? Smells like panic to me
Mind you, you have no idea of how many "subscribers" FFXIV has and had, since Square Enix only ever released the numbers of active concurrent users.
Quite obviously those numbers weren't that impressive for Funcom, otherwise they would have released them, instead of talking about "subscribers".

I'll spell it out for you.

making "a profit" (and a very small one), is nowhere a sign of success for MMORPGs. if MMORPGs that "make a profit" were to be considered successful, critical failures like Warhammer Online, Age of Conan and Darkfall online would be a success. Companies don't invest years of development and resources to make a pittance in revenue.

Golden rule. if you know nothing about the market and marketing (or base what little you know on wikipedia lol), don't argue about it. You're well entitled to like a game, but basing some laughable concept of "success" on generic free subscriber numbers is laughable at best.