I keep wondering why people assume that the primary money-maker for the Digital Entertainment sector of Square Enix is this game. At the 9-month mark, net sales for the entire MMO section were less than 20% of Digital Entertainment net sales.

Mind you, this was BEFORE the announcement of the release date for the next expansion.

"Content abandonment" is a nice way of saying "we decided to take a loss on the development costs of projects we will no longer consider bringing to release in order to save money for development of what actually sells right now."

We'll have to wait to see ...