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Wagram on 08 May 2012
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outlawauron said:
Wagram said:

Of course now the game isn't as supported as it was say 5 years ago, but we have to remember that FFXI is about 10 years old now. Also due to Final Fantasy XIV, the production for new FFXI expansions has basically stopped. Many moons ago they had over 1 million subs, and at $12.95 per month thats a ton of money. That's not even factoring in token sales, expansion sales, product keys, extra characters and more. I do agree that since DQX is only on a console at this point that it will not be as successful as XI was, but I still do believe it has the potential to be a mega hit in terms of revenue for the company.

We know that isn't true. Wada was quoted in 2003 saying there were 200k subs and it wasn't until this point that they finally made money on it. In 2006, there were 200-300k subs. It's wiki, but still.

Keep in mind, we're speaking in such relative terms as Dragon Quest is far more popular than FF in Japan.

As of 2008, in an announcement for three additional expansions in development, SE noted Final Fantasy XI still has a strong user base of around 500,000 subscribers. In April 2009, Square Enix announced that the total number of active characters exceeded 2 million for the first time.

Can't seem to recall the article where I seen the 1M subs. I'll try to find it, but more now i'll post that. Which is also on the wiki. It still gives the idea at how successful XI was. 2003 it was made into a profitable game, and it's now 2012 (even though subs have drastically dwindled). All of those years of monthly subs is amazing profit.

Also we've been speaking about this for so long I can't remember how we got onto the topic. lol.

Anyways I hope Versus is at XIII in some capacity or another.