FFXI announces three new expansions coming next year

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Square Enix, the publisher of Final Fantasy XI, has just announced the development of three new downloadable expansions for the fantasy MMO. Each of these new expansions are said to come out next year, and will be led by Masato Kato, who worked on the original Final Fantasy XI storyline as well as its first expansion pack, Rise of the Zilart.

The first of these three will be entitled A Crystalline Prophecy - Ode of Life Bestowing and is set to release in spring of 2009. The remaining two expansions, A Moogle Kupo d'Etat - Evil in Small Doses and A Shantotto Ascension - The Legend Torn, Her Empire Born will both release sometime in the following months. You can check out the entire press release, as well as some more info on Masato Kato at the Square Enix blog.FFXI announces three new expansions coming next year originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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The development codename for the new expansion set was "Fuck, Wings of the Goddess sucked. Let's release some new episodic content rather than doing anything relevant with this recent shitty expansion, cause we need more income to outpace our growing expenses."

Retards.
 
Those retards are still making hordes of cash.

From their latest Financial reports:

Online Games (FFXI) operating margin: 48.6%

Even though sales declined 11.4% and operating income dropped 13.1%, still managed to pull out ahead. Every other segment has a much lower margin ranging from 4.5% to 36.9%... The end result: 14% in the green, carried mostly by Online games & "Others" (Others includes planning, production, licensing & distribution [hi2u Tidal Talisman])

$$$, They've still got it. ;)
 
I'm not surprised they have a large operating margin. They've pigeonholed all their users into one location to cut costs. A smart move, saving money by shitting on your player base. Of course, I speak only of North American and European players. God forbid they hold a non-emergency maintenance time that isn't peak playing hours for the rest of the world. How long has it been since one of those four year old kings were in peak NA hours for more than a day or two?

Here's how you should interpret their financial information:
"Wow, they have a huge profit margin...what the fuck are they doing with that money?"

Oh yeah: ;)
 
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