Well, I think tightening their game selection process is not a good thing, any way you look at it titles a lot of people like are doubtlessly going to be lost, as Square-Enix gives up creativity in favor of milking what amounts to the same old thing. While I don't think it was a resounding success, and not one of my personal favorites (given that I'm not a huge shooter fan) look at say "Just Cause 2", that seems like the kind of game that is going to get canned under their new strategy.
To be painfully blunt, I think they need to just suck it up. Sure they had a bad quarter and lost like $150 million, but it's one quarter with some extreme factors. If they haven't been idiots with the profits they were making beforehand, they shouldn't have to be making any real changes to their operations, and just take the hit and move on, I mean right now it's obvious that there were factors beyond their control involved, as opposed to bad business desicians on their part. I think they are kind of milking this as an excuse to become even more ruthlessly corperate and try and limit the fan backlash to things they probably wanted to do anyway.
I find it darkly amusing when large companies have a bad quarter or simply don't meet predicted growth and run around screaming how the sky is falling. I mean if your losing big bucks every quarter that's one thing, but stuff happens, and if you take a loss here and there it's part of being in business. The bigger you are, the bigger the numbers are, and at least here Square knows it's not really anything they did. As I said, extreme action on their part isn't exactly justified. With the amount of money they have made, this just means skimming a few bucks off the top of that giant mountain of billions to cover losses for once, and get on with life.
To be painfully blunt, I think they need to just suck it up. Sure they had a bad quarter and lost like $150 million, but it's one quarter with some extreme factors. If they haven't been idiots with the profits they were making beforehand, they shouldn't have to be making any real changes to their operations, and just take the hit and move on, I mean right now it's obvious that there were factors beyond their control involved, as opposed to bad business desicians on their part. I think they are kind of milking this as an excuse to become even more ruthlessly corperate and try and limit the fan backlash to things they probably wanted to do anyway.
I find it darkly amusing when large companies have a bad quarter or simply don't meet predicted growth and run around screaming how the sky is falling. I mean if your losing big bucks every quarter that's one thing, but stuff happens, and if you take a loss here and there it's part of being in business. The bigger you are, the bigger the numbers are, and at least here Square knows it's not really anything they did. As I said, extreme action on their part isn't exactly justified. With the amount of money they have made, this just means skimming a few bucks off the top of that giant mountain of billions to cover losses for once, and get on with life.
