Final Fantasy XI is the most profitable entry in the franchise
What's the most profitable Final Fantasy ever? If you guessed Final Fantasy 7, you'd be wrong.
What's the most profitable Final Fantasy ever? If you guessed Final Fantasy VII, you'd be wrong. Final Fantasy XI has earned Square Enix the most bank, thanks to its loyal paying subscriber base. "Looking at profitability, it's the top of all past FF games," CEO Yoichi Wada explained at a recent Vana Fest event.
Given the ongoing success of Final Fantasy's first MMO, Square Enix has announced a surprise expansion pack. Coming five years after the last expansion, "Seekers of Adoulin" will be available in 2013.
According to Andriasang, the expansion pack will include new areas and two new jobs. And while there will be a retail release in Japan and Europe, the North American release will be download-only on both Xbox 360 and PC.
While it's commendable that Square Enix is continuing its support of such an aging property, one has to wonder how it reflects upon Final Fantasy XIV, its other MMORPG. That game has struggled since launch, and is being rebooted with a 2.0 update. Given how much money the company has made with XI, it's no wonder Square Enix wants to repeat that success with XIV.
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What's the most profitable Final Fantasy ever? If you guessed Final Fantasy 7, you'd be wrong.-
it would be if they remade ff7.
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It would be interesting to see the numbers. I'd think a comparison of invested money vs profit would be a better way to measure the profit than raw dollars. Especially with the gaming consumers being a growing audience. It's like comparing an older movie with a new one. There's little chance of a 50 year old hi movie making the raw profits of a new one.
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They said most profitable, not highest revenue. And FFXI came out like 4-5 years after FFVII, seems fair to me. Especially considering that FFVII sold the most copies of any FF game ever, so it could be argued that the FF audience has shrunk over time, if anything.
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It's a shame that all that 'profit' more than likely went into fixing FFXIV.
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It's a shame they didn't take their time with FFXIV and rushed it..I mean if FFXI was so profitable they should have realized they could have spent a little more time to make sure they hit FFXIV out of the ballpark.
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or it's a good example to show why so many companies were/are chasing the MMO market
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Because one charges an ongoing subscription fee and the other doesn't.
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Avatar earned a lot of money, maybe Square should abandon games and make movies. It's all X and Y, and never mind the quality of either!
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OP's point was that comparing FFXI to the rest in the series is inappropriate because one is an MMO and the others are not. That they share a name immaterial to his point. You asked "how so?" and I told you. And now I'm telling you again.
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The games produce very different streams of income. Why are you guys being so dense? I didn't say the comparison was misleading (I'm no the OP here), but I do think it is inapt, and it doesn't require much intelligence to understand why.
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Maybe not misleading, but the information doesn't mean as much than if they took the MMO out of the pool and told what sold the most out of the remaining games. That information would be more interesting to me at least. It seems obvious that the MMO would make more money (unless of course it was a flop).
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That information is readily available. Find a website that lists sales numbers. FYI FF7 sold the most copies by far.
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what is the gameplay like? Is it anything like FFXII? I am really enjoying playing through that one right now.
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Unless it changed in the last couple of years you auto-attacked mobs for 30-60 seconds then used a skill if you're a melee, which is the majority of classes. Rinse and repeat. If you're a mage or support then you cast shit.
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It's not fair to compare this to the single player games.....because it's a God of a game in comparison.
Never have I been so immersed in a game world as I was with Final Fantasy XI, it's a perfect game imho.
Which is funny because I have absolutely zero interest in any other MMORPGs, XI is in a league of it's own.-
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