FF16 stealing even more dev time from FF14

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Let’s address this illogical comment. Final fantasy 14 didn’t always exist. The money to develop this game came from somewhere. That somewhere would be other square enix titles.

So in turn the profits from this game, as with all other square games, whether it’s final fantasy, tomb raider, a marvel game, whatever, go into developing other games.

You’d think this reasoning would be obvious

Alright, I'm not gonna defend OP or anything. 'Cause.. It's a complicated subject.

But it's also weird to say "Yeah, well FFX paid for FFXI" - No, it allowed the funds to start the project and finish it by a corporation paying it's employees. But ultimately it still needs to pay for itself after sales are completed. FFXIV is also a product that has a sales goal to pay for itself. This also includes the fact that we have a cash shop.

The concern is how the excessive funds are shared and used. Engaging customers may feel entitled to more content given the current funds to the current product.

So if FFXVI pays for itself and takes the excess funds away from FFXIV, it may feel unfair to those customers. Or the idea that SE pockets it for just.. Bullshit corporate reasons.

But I think people also have a right to be suspicious and concerned about where the funds go. Mostly because strange SE decisions that we know have been pretty sour. Can't take the SE out of FFXIV unfortunately.

It's also not a matter of funding, it's a matter of dev availability. How can we 100% for certain trust that XIV hasn't been impacted in some form when they pulled devs.

Who knows, maybe FFXVI and FFXIV 7.0 will regain some of that trust.