So we don't have enough devs

[Maero]

And also the fact that most of the money goes to their (SE) other projects, only small portion is allocated to FFXIV
Part of business i suppose..

[HungryHippo]

And also the fact that most of the money goes to their (SE) other projects, only small portion is allocated to FFXIV
Part of business i suppose..

They have/had to. FF15 is a game many people been waiting for. Not many people know that ff10-2 was suppose to be ff13 on ps2, but they waited and wanted ff13 on ps3 instead. Because of xbox limits (yeah no bluray) they wanted to make 3 games out of ff13, which originaly was meant to be 1 as a whole. Since new ideas kept coming up their sleves, they extended it slightly more. Square enix lost a lot of economy because of these games plus kept posposting FF15. To make make up for it, the income of this game, is spread out for FF15 even FF7 remake I would say.

It's not a bad thing at all, but I think they should use more resources/money on this game, to attract new players and let them stay, just like it's a very good idea to keep the current ones in game. There is only so much this game can do to keep old players. Thing is, this game is a goldmine atm for them and their job as a company is to do that. We are their customers and they would like us to stay for more income. More players doesn't necessary mean they will have a lot more income, far from it. The biggest income is to maintain the old ones, including getting new ones.

[Airget]

And also the fact that most of the money goes to their (SE) other projects, only small portion is allocated to FFXIV
Part of business i suppose..

FFXIV survived because SE allocated more funds into the game to give it a second chance, so it wouldn't make sense to invest more money only to have that money go to the game. It also wouldn't make sense to make an MMO and just throw all funds back into the game, that just defeats the purpose of the business.

It's possible FFXIV won't always divert so much funds to other games, but until they pay off their tab they have no choice but to use the profit to payback into the cost of making/remaking the game.