Quote Originally Posted by Sorel View Post
Fair enough.

My question to you then is this. If FFXIV:ARR gains and keeps all the FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 players that ever played as paying subscribers, would you consider it a success?
I think they'd be ecstatic to gain their subscribers back from box sales alone. (600k+ sales) Remember, FFXI generated them a profit only after about 3 years into the game's life and I don't know if subs had peaked by then or not. I remember reading something that FFXI peaked at 1mil subscribers at some point.

Other niche games have gotten by with much less subscribers and still have been successful. Their ultimate goal is to turn a profit, and if it only requires 100k continuous subscribers to accomplish that, they'll be ok with that. Obviously they want as many people playing their game as possible though.