Quote Originally Posted by remiff View Post
Even the mobile version of FF14, still in developpement and not yet released, already has far far away better features than the PC version has managed to deliver to the players in 12 years of existence.
The developers clearly aren’t making enough effort, and one often wonders where the money goes.
Is it being used to fund the commercial failures of their poorly executed AAA games?
Yes. XIV is one of Square's only products that reliably turns a profit, with the others being a loss, breaking even, or doing okay but worse than they were projecting. CS3 was also very open about pulling most of the senior staff off XIV to make XVI(which, according to the CEO, was another flop), and after that they were promoted to supervisory positions, and now CS3's second best group is working on an unnamed project while Yoshida primarily oversees that, the mobile game, the studio's general operations, and his duties related to being on the board of directors. At this point, XIV is simply a dusty money printer that's largely being maintained by amateurs.