Quote Originally Posted by Dr. rydrum2112 View Post
Bob- You missed my point. Yeah 14 wasn't f'ded up last year but they spent lots of time & money fixing and getting set to relaunch 14 in those 9 months. How is that the console game market's fault?
That can explain a predicted loss, but they were expecting better returns. When they tell shareholders they expect money to come in, they were never telling them it was going to be flooding in from FFXIV. The "console game market" explanation is for the shareholders, and it is there to explain why they did not meet their own expectations.

They never expected any money to come from FFXIV in those nine months, and they always expected to be pouring resources into it. They expected to be making a loss in this area, I'm fairly certain of that, because pretty much everyone knew it. However, the console games they did release did not create their expected revenue, and therefore they are correct in stating that the reason they did not meet their expected revenue for the nine months was due to the console game market and not the MMO market.

Ouch! is pretty much on the ball with saying that without the breakdown of the numbers we can't do much analysis. I don't expect them to bulltrout the shareholders as if they can't read the numbers, though, and those shareholders probably get to see more details than we do.