Quote Originally Posted by Mirage View Post
I'm excited for this new expansion, and will probably reactivate my FF11 content ID a few months prior to its release.

No matter what you personally think about FF11, the game is most likely a huge cash cow for SE. According to SE themselves, the game reached a peak of 2 million active characters last year. I think it is fair to assume that the average amount of characters per player is less than 5, which means the game "probably" has around 300k subscribers. That's a total income of ~50 million dollars a year from FF11. Now I'm not a game developed, but I doubt FF11 costs even close to 50 million dollars a year in server maintenance and developer salaries.

Because of that, I think it is a smart move to try to keep the game alive, and it seems like SE is of the same opinion.

But what this post really makes me think about is how obscenely much money Blizzard must be making off of WoW...
Ya, I just hope that SE learns from their methods of releasing said content from the expansion pack. I definitely don't want to see a repeat of WOTG in which they stretch out the expansion for years just to force people to keep paying so that they can see the ending of the story. I hope they'll roll out all the content in a year story wise so you aren't left waiting 2-5yrs to see what the ending of the story is.