Quote Originally Posted by Zanfire View Post
there is a big difference between a game like rift, from not a huge company, with a much smaller rep, and its not based on one of the worlds largest IPs, with a past game still running strong after a decade. Compare them dropping 99 to 47, to 18 to like 8.
RIFT isn't cheap to make, I would guess around 50m. APB wasn't cheap either, RTW was in the red of about 100m when they went burst. FFXIV on the other hand, I doubt the figures would be that high because SE develop many games sharing same assets like the graphic engine (at the very least FFXIII, XIII-2, XIV and XIII vs). Like someone said before, there's a difference between SE and Trion. SE produce many games of different genres on many platforms, Trion pretty much produce only MMORPG (3 for now). And don't you forget that RIFT used to boast they are the 2nd most popular Western MMORPG.