What Will Be The Biggest Flops of 2014?

[FlamingWeazel]

ishiki said:

hinch said:

NintendoPie said:

hinch said:

Oh yeah. I keep forgetting about Elder Scroll Online. Oh boy. Apparently the game cost them 200M to make.

Bomberific.

Why would any company let budgets balloon to that expense?

Ridiculous.

You would think that after the titanic failure of all the recent MMO's FFXIV (at launch) and SWTOR Online and so on.. that companies would stop churning out these huge big budget MMO's that only a small audience wants to play. And end up eating huge losses.

OK.. thats not entirely true because the people who do want to play one, play WoW. And even the interest for that is getting smaller and smaller.

the reason is, if it's successful it makes them a boatload. 

FFXI despite being a lot smaller than WoW, is SE's most profitable FF of all time. 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/24/the-most-profitable-final-fantasy-of-all-time-is

Exactly, and ff14 BTW is a great game. Amazing how they turned it around after that launch.