Why we are not allowed to have fun?

[Daralii]

Yoshida himself has said that the new projects and board work keep him too busy to pay much of any attention to XIV. He just gets wheeled out for PR reasons.

[Carin-Eri]

Yoshida himself has said that the new projects and board work keep him too busy to pay much of any attention to XIV. He just gets wheeled out for PR reasons.

Yeah - those new projects that benefit from FFXIV's income generation, as opposed to said income being fed back into the game that generated it....

[Daralii]

Yeah - those new projects that benefit from FFXIV's income generation, as opposed to said income being fed back into the game that generated it....

Square needs more flops so they can lose another 27% this quarter.

[Turtledeluxe]

Yeah - those new projects that benefit from FFXIV's income generation, as opposed to said income being fed back into the game that generated it....

Only for that income to be wasted, since FFXVI suffers from same design problems and probably barely broken even..

[Daralii]

Only for that income to be wasted, since FFXVI suffers from same design problems and probably barely broken even..

It probably broke even just because it had a pretty small budget for a modern AAA game($59m dev budget, maybe another $20m-$30m for marketing), but Square still said it undersold.