"SPARE NO EXPENSES"

[hunkygladiator]

Where have the expenses gone? Did Square Enix spend 100 million dollars on designing a relic step that takes 1500 astronomy?

[Stormpeaks]

Id say about 500k went towards maintaining FF14, and 99.5m went to FF16

Yeah seems about right

[DragonFlyy]

Id say about 500k went towards maintaining FF14, and 99.5m went to FF16

Yeah seems about right

You mean 99.5m went to Square Enix as a whole. They do a lot more than just FF14 and FF16.

[Sheriyana]

Id say about 500k went towards maintaining FF14, and 99.5m went to FF16

Yeah seems about right

No, knowing SE these days 500k went to XIV, maybe 1.5mil to XVI and the rest to "invest" in NFTs and crypto garbage.

[AkaeiNox]

No, knowing SE these days 500k went to XIV, maybe 1.5mil to XVI and the rest to "invest" in NFTs and crypto garbage.

I don't know why they decided to invest into NFTs instead of ML models like OpenAI and GPT-4.
Procedurally generated content would fix a lot of things here.

[Eraden]

Is this troll post? Mao can't imagine company needing to spendings 100 million Gils on single patch.

[Midareyukki]

Don't be silly, Skiros.

We all know that money got dumped on NFTs -w-

[hunkygladiator]

Don't be silly, Skiros.

We all know that money got dumped on NFTs -w-

As I'm getting similar questions so I shall re-post. FF17 is not a RPG game. Could attack with sword subjectively but not an action hitting game either. By incorporating with the concept of connection(NFT), it's totally brand new genre called NFT game(social crypto system).

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/...74622711975936

[ryouma17]

you seem to have gotten square-enix confused with john hammond i dont remember square ever saying they spared no expense for the game, got any links to that?

[ForteNightshade]

you seem to have gotten square-enix confused with john hammond i dont remember square ever saying they spared no expense for the game, got any links to that?

While an obvious troll post, Yoshida did make that statement. Just not necessarily with the context being used here.

Final Fantasy 14 Surpasses 24 Million Players, Becomes Most Profitable Final Fantasy Game In the Series

Indeed, Yoshida says Final Fantasy 14 is the most profitable title in the Final Fantasy series. "It's perhaps unbecoming of me to say but in terms of our business, we've been able to achieve great success. Moving forward, we're going to spare no expense with our investments to ensure that this game continues to be one which our players can enjoy."