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"Game servers" also doesn't just mean Timmy's Minecraft server. It's big commercial games.

Final Fantasy XIV keeps getting hammered, likely Aisuru, off and on since at least September.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/detail/6b56814...

For some scale, Final Fantasy XIV makes about $65 million in annual revenue (and decreasing).

According to their latest financial earnings on page 11 of https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/ir/library/pdf/25q4slides... they made 55.5 billion yen or about $357 million. So quite a bit more revenue than $65 million

141m operating revenue for the mmo sector

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That's correct! You've correctly interpreted the document -- they had 324.5 B yen total sales. FF14 is on page 11, made 55.5B yen sales. and grew 8B yen yoy.

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