KeyMaster45 said:
Blitzwing said:
mjc0961 said:
No wonder everything they've done in recent history is a failure.
Like what exactly?
FF14, I'd call that a rousing failure in every sense of the word. They shoved an unfinished game out the door long before it was ever ready. What initial sales they may have made off of the game itself they have surely lost in having to not charge anyone a monthly fee because it's so broken. FF13 may have sucked but I understand it still sold well. Fourteen, unfortunately suffers from both suckage and losing money every day they go without their subscription fees in place.
FF14 is possibly the first MMO I've seen to go from subscription to free in under a month. It's amazingly pathetic and all due to Square Enix being unable and unwilling to take fair criticism of idiotic design decisions or to listen to opinions and ideas outside their own corporate environment. Consider how they treated GRIN. And while FF13 sold fairly well, you have to understand that it was in development hell for the better part of a decade, being in development while FFXII was almost simultaneously. It's extremely unlikely that they recouped their development costs for 13. Furthermore, they've even gone so far as to separate FF13 Agito from the "Fabula Nova" FF13 sub-brand so as
not to hurt its sales by association. Only time will tell if FF13 Versus will get a rebranding or if they're hoping it'll redeem the FF13 sub-brand.
Now, they probably killed GRIN's project because they 1) didn't want to leave a major property in an overseas developmer's hands and 2) didn't want to hurt FF13's chances by having it compete with a Westerner-made FFXII spin-off. Much good that did them. Now, they've learned the hard way that they just can't compete. Look at another Japanese major publisher who's relied on Western development studios to work on their projects and see how they're doing: Capcom. They're now the only major Japanese publisher to regularly claim a profit in no small part because they trusted their overseas development partners. I'm of course talking about Dead Rising 2.
Woodsey said:
Just leave them alone until Deus Ex is out please.
Hopefully, Square Enix has seen the writing on the wall and won't abuse their Eidos acquisitions the same way they abused GRIN or their own internal development teams. Remember the rumors surrounding FFXII and Yasumi Matsuno's troubles with SE management on that project.
