Quote Originally Posted by BigCheez View Post
I don't think it's intention. I think corporate SE's point of view was that FFXIV is doing well, therefore CBU3 doesn't need a lot of resources, while the offline and mobile games divisions are underperforming, therefore they need a bunch of money pumped into them.

Hopefully the decline will help them realise that maybe the continued success of their flagship product is something worth investing in.
They have invested in it, with the massive graphical overhaul, with making everything soloable with trusts, that must not have been cheap...

I'm not sure I buy that they're using the revenue money from subs and sales of FFXIV to reinvest in other projects. I'm not an economist but from what I understand big investment require outside funding (FF16 and FF7R had an exclusivity deal with Sony precisely because of this) and FFXIV isn't gonna bring them massive revenue to justify that, even if you brought everyone back and made every single lil' warrior of light happy. It's their projected profit thing that ends up being the problem (to this and any gaming company), there's just not enough MMO players to satisfy their insane greed.

I remember on FF7Remake and Rebirth sold out, but it didn't meet Square Enix sales expectations, despite it being PS5-Only and at that point they were just angry people didn't buy the game 3 times to meet the expectations.