SE: Almost 300 employees on FFXIV 2.0, new title releases "suffered for 2 to 3 years"

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oniyide said:

DigitalDevilSummoner said:

oniyide said:

This game sold 650,000 copies since 2010, its 2012. This is an FF game and it sold that little, that is a handful of people for a franchise as big as FF, id bet dollars to donuts there are more people than that looking forward to versus in the US alone.  SO no im not going anywhere.

I am a very calm man and I will try to level with you.

 

Square Enix, a big company, a place where many people are working, made a big boo boo and they are tryin to fix it.

and you know what...thats commendable, they are trying to fix it, what i (and im sure some others) dont like is that its at the expense of other games, especially one that has been as highly anticipated as Versus 13 and the numbers speak for themselves. 650,000 for a MAINLINE FF game in two years is abysmal. Hell 11 did better than that. I think this is just a pride thing, this game was a critical and commercial failure and they cant stand that. I would've just cut my loses and just use those assests to put out more games

IIRC FFXI is one of their most profitable games. I'm sure they want a successor to it, badly, and they probably see more potential in this than creating a whole new MMORPG.