Money this game makes

[EnigmaticDodo]

There is some astounding lack of business knowledge in this thread. Every company on the planet funnels some level of funds back into new projects. FF14 wouldn't exist unless it was subsidized by SE's other games' profits. Are you going to complain about giving returns to shareholders or perhaps pay to staff next?

Most entertainment media including movies and games relies on like a 70/20/10 ratio, 70% of what they make will get a lackluster response and probably lose money, 20% will be successful and turn a decent profit, 10% will be the blockbusters that fuel the company future. Because it's entertainment and not an exact science you can't be sure of where the dice will fall until they do. Failure in entertainment is high, like restaurants, most go out of business and anyone who thinks this sort of business is 70% success is deranged. Sony Entertainment or Warner Bros or 20th CF will make far more dud movies than blockbusters.

I understand that profits from any product has to pay people and get used to create more games, etc. I'm just concerned, at this current time, about 14 getting to keep it's fair share to continue to drive ITS development. I would prefer they double down on something that has been a continued success over these objective failures they like to churn out. I guess my issue is with the current direction of Square more than anything.