i pointed this out in another thread, but many people here seem to be under the impression that arcsys gets a monthly check from arcades or something because accent core is still a popular game.
but the fact of the matter is, arcsys has already made all the money they're going to from ac. they only get money from the initial sales of the game, and gd-rom's have been out of production for almost four years now. all the console ports have made their small fortune too, so anything they see from ac at this point is perhaps sponsorship from enterbrain for every year it's at sbo, but i'm not sure if that's even the case.
and now it makes sense as to why they churn out a new bb every year, even if it's just a small update like cs2, lol.