Quote Originally Posted by Rikudou-Sennin View Post
Yeah I never claimed FF11 tanked SE. The subs for FF11 didn't touch that of WoW's because many people felt FF11 was for hardcore people only. Even if FF11 had 200,000 subs that's not alot.. I know what costs are involved in running a large scale computing environment as I do it for a living as a Sr Systems Engineer. It could easily break a company if they aren't pulling in enough money to cover the costs with a data center that size.
Remember that back then everquest was considered a juggernaut at 500,000. 200,000 is not as bad as it looks. Especially since Square Enix is a self publisher which also helps. If 200,000 was too low then until wow Everquest was the only mmo to actually make money. I doubt this.