Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7146531-20140131090141/@comment-25370154-20141019085228

SlyCooperFan1 wrote:

Kazutoki Kono briefly implied somewhere that if Infinity does not succeed, then we'll never see a next-gen Ace Combat. So "skipping out" on Infinity will hurt the entire series in the long run. Well, if I had known that, I would have never started playing Ace Combat Infinity.

What Kono did is 'blackmailing' people: play the F2P and buy tons of extra contents or I won't make a new Ace Combat. Further words on that would end in swearing, so I'll stop myself here.