They need to kill FFXIV (Score:2)
Who knows exactly how much FFXIV is costing them in development costs and server costs, but that ship has sailed. There's no point sinking money into something that will never turn a profit.
It's been seven months now. The improvements the game has made are minor at best. (The two biggest are that leveling combat classes is now possible, and that the market place works. Not well, mind you, but it works.) If you ask anyone playing whether or not you should, they'll tell you flat-out it isn't worth it.
This is not the sign of a game on the road to profitability. With every week that goes by, the ability to earn new players goes down.
Once they've stopped throwing money at a failed game, then they can start worrying about creating new games that people actually want to play.
But first, they've got to stop the bleeding.
I always thought that making MMOs part of the main series was a bad decision. Releasing one that clearly wasn't close to ready was a truly idiotic one. More's the pity, because they actually got Nobuo Uematsu to come back to do the score for that game.
They've been sitting on remaking FF7 for years. $150 million would probably be covered by just the initial release if they were to produce an updated version with modern tech.
Not that I care either way--I hated that game and pay less attention to Square with each year. But they _could_ do it any time if they only wanted to.
Final Fantasy VII still has a massive fanbase. I'm one of the rare people who actually thought Final Fantasy VIII was better than VII, but even I would be enthusiastic for a VII remake on the PS3 a la the demo they released a few years back. Besides, of all the Final Fantasy games, VII seems most in need of a remake. It was their first foray into 3D graphics and the results did not age well at all.
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