http://digg.com/news/gaming/square_e...y_xiv_to_blame
Good. Now we don't have to suffer through anymore crappy Final Fantasy games (those after 7)
Wait, aren't they making the new Deus Ex?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...d/Dxhr_box.jpg
NOOOOOOO!!!
I'm only really worried about the half of the company that's still Enix...
This is why I hate Digg!
The original story
http://www.1up.com/news/square-enix-...ings-forecasts
& the report
http://www.square-enix.com/eng/news/...16_E_FINAL.pdf
DEUS EX is still coming out:
"We therefore have decided to spend additional time to further polish our upcoming game, DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION™, resulting in a shift in release timing from our prior plan of the current fiscal year to next fiscal year."
Dear SE,
My money is currently waiting to be put in to your hands. Waiting for Xenogears, Einhander, Vagrant Story, Front Mission 3, and the rumored FF7 remake which would just print money.
Just sayin, since it seems like your hurting for money and your decision making is horrible, at best.
Woot woot, this would be the best news ever in the history of the gaming industry.
With any hope Enix will break away(the real ENIX members, no evil square scum allowed),letting square completely die off, then go back to making the great ENIX games we all knew, and loved.
How can such a massive game company make the foolish mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket?
There are a few idiots out there who are being awfully reactionary about this.
They are facing some STAGGERING losses. This much is true. But they also had their best year in 2009. The Square war machine is going to keep on trucking in some form or another, regardless of these recent failures.
I don't really want to see Square die...but I would like to see them change out of their current form. There are plenty of simple projects they could undertake in an effort to bring in the cash, as others have mentioned here. They just kind of seem to be all over the place with their franchises lately, it would be nice to see them go back to the roots. A Front Mission action game? Another MMO? An "on-rails" Final Fantasy title? What were they thinking? And where is my next gen FF Tactics at? Let's see a FF Collection for the DS featuring three or four of the top titles. Let's see an FF7 remake. They seem to have been wasting so much resources.
It would behoove them to adopt a micro-transaction model, and make FFXIV free, at the VERY least. D&D Online seems to have benefitted a lot from such a system. I don't particularly dislike Square, but I definitely have not had much of an interest in any of their recent titles. They had a hit in my opinion with FF12, regardless of the negative critical feedback from diehard fans of the series. Trying to reinvent the franchise with each new iteration is a blunder, in my opinion; from FF1 to FF10 basically, barring minor changes and the like with the games sub systems etc, they had a good thing going and were selling more than enough to get by.
Anyways, misguided rant. I like Enix, but I would feel sad to see a company with a history like Square fade into the wood work. Only the most jaded, disgruntled gaming cynic can get behind something like that, I think.
This is what they get for not making Einhander II.
Serves the bastards right.
I don't they're going anywhere anytime soon.Didn't FFXIII do well or was that the last fiscal year.
Maybe this is what it takes, to get Square to put together a FFVII remake. The fans have been more than vocal about getting this title done. I have no doubts it would be a cash-cow for them.
I don't understand why FFVII needs a remake. The game is quite playable on modern systems. I would prefer for S-E to work on a new game, and stop re-re-re-releasing every single FF under the sun every time the company coffers look a little low.
Let's not forget Chrono Break.Quote:
Originally Posted by runback22
Cockroaches die hard. This is true of most corporations as well. Does anybody seriously think Square-Enix will tank with this one release? I don't believe it for a second. Just like Sega, they will survive somehow and keep pumping out crap and re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re releasing decade old games everyone and his/her dog has played for what feels like centuries.
Until we see an actual bankruptcy report, from a credible source, I think it's safe to say this staggering loss is merely just a pothole in the road for our virtually undying Square-Enix.
How can any company do that? It's horrible business on a basic level. You can take a class in community college and run that business better than those hacks.Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor