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adjl posted...

I have to wonder how much those microtransactions actually made them. Usually, making money off of microtransactions relies on engineering the game to manipulate players into wanting to spend money to solve what they perceive as a problem (which, of course, was deliberately put there). Tacking them on after not building the game around them at all, however, doesn't do that.

I'm not surprised that they didn't have high hopes for sales, though. Squenix is pretty notorious for having extremely unrealistic expectations for their games and then being disappointed when they don't reach them. I think it was one of the Tomb Raider games that sold 5-6 million copies, and that was still "below expectations" despite the fact that it was by far the best-selling game in the series to date. Some of their executives seem to have trouble differentiating between "expectations" and "wildest dreams."

they said that they would need to sell around 9m or so just to break even.

on a game that already had assets made from the first game, and a truckload of money given to them for it by microsoft