Quote Originally Posted by Sotaris View Post
Back in 2012 it was the most profitable game ever made by Square Enix. I don't know if FF14 has surpassed that but I would imagine so? But that it still makes profit, that's a certain given the low running cost and still a good active community.)
It is less expensive (and more profitable) for SE to come out with another in its series of mobile games, as that division made 33+ billion Yen last quarter. All of the MMOs combined made less than 12 billion Yen last quarter.

Classic and retail WoW are, basically, the same game, with a launcher that works well with both, and an accounting/subscription service that was never separate.

FF11 and FF14 are not the same game, and subscriptions are not provided by the same service.

Moving from Playonline to the FFXIV launcher (and the different account managers) would be a massive and disruptive undertaking with unknown reward.