People are all so bored of the game and playing BG3

[Mcg55ss]

I have never been less impressed by post launch content than I have with EW. So yeah, I agree.

well to be fair...Post EW launch you did have your lead developer and some of his team working on another game. S.E. only weird decision to me is FFXIV has been their bread and butter bringing in the cash despite many...and i mean MANY failures of other titles yet Yoshi-P has stated he can't get a budget increase from S.E. to implement more stuff he would like in this game. They would rather invest that money into flops like Forspoken than the game actually making them money.

[Vahlnir]

well to be fair...Post EW launch you did have your lead developer and some of his team working on another game. S.E. only weird decision to me is FFXIV has been their bread and butter bringing in the cash despite many...and i mean MANY failures of other titles yet Yoshi-P has stated he can't get a budget increase from S.E. to implement more stuff he would like in this game. They would rather invest that money into flops like Forspoken than the game actually making them money.

FF 16 is great, to be fair, or at least it is to me. But it came at a pretty significant cost as far as FF XIV is concerned. SE's priorities are all over the place nowadays.

[Mcg55ss]

FF 16 is great, to be fair, or at least it is to me. But it came at a pretty significant cost as far as FF XIV is concerned. SE's priorities are all over the place nowadays.

well hopefully they don't end up pulling a Ubisoft, where they chased too many trends then it puts them in the predicament of forcing the cancellations of most their upcoming games because none of the trends they tried to chase working. I do say 16 probably hurt what EW was suppose to be and Yoshi wanted for 14 but will have to wait and see where Dawntrail goes to know really.

[DPZ2]

S.E. only weird decision to me is FFXIV has been their bread and butter bringing in the cash despite many...and i mean MANY failures of other titles

Please take a moment and peruse the financial statements of SE before making ridiculous assumptions about where the 'bread and butter' of the company lies. The MMORPG portion of Digital Entertainment is about 18% of the 62.3 billion yen in net sales [FY2024 Q1]. The Amusement sector made more money in sales (yeah, merchandising and arcades, go figure) than all of the MMORPGs SE makes.

As for investing in other properties, it's what gaming companies do.

[Mcg55ss]

Please take a moment and peruse the financial statements of SE before making ridiculous assumptions about where the 'bread and butter' of the company lies. The MMORPG portion of Digital Entertainment is about 18% of the 62.3 billion yen in net sales [FY2024 Q1]. The Amusement sector made more money in sales (yeah, merchandising and arcades, go figure) than all of the MMORPGs SE makes.

As for investing in other properties, it's what gaming companies do.

LOL you are talking PROJECTED NUMBERS because hate to tell you FY 2024 Q1 has not happened yet....LOL god and you tell me to read financial reports then quote a projection XD