More like Wada is a failure.
I mixed up Enix with Eidos. They just straight up bought that company. I have no opinion on Enix.The correct response was "what Enix side?" It's one company now. There aren't any sides.
No he didn't. He stopped serving as the pointless and I'm sure constantly ignored position of Special Director in 2005, after the merger woes really started settling in.
no lies. Poor ha and poor nomura. Should make his own studio and bail on these baboons
Wow, ONE film brought them to their knees? What a mess.
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I remember when this logo was all about quality and amazing JRPGs. ;_;
Her hair was priceless though.Wow, ONE film brought them to their knees? What a mess.
This guy was in charge when the company had its huge ass losses and now he criticizes the only way they had to stay afloat after everything that happened when he was running it
what an asshole
Square did not remotely shoulder all the production costs alone.With a budget of 137 million dollars Final Fantasy: The Spirits Withing only grossed 85 million dollars worldwide. Bear in mind that on average studios earn approximately 55 percent of the final gross so Square saw approximately $47 million, add the marketing costs and we have a loss that comfortably surpasses $100 million.
Enix IPs (basically Dragon Quest) are doing very well
That was what, 10 years ago? How many of the peopple involved are still with the company now? Their current losses are the current management's fault, not the team from 10 years ago. Sucks to see they're losing money when it looked like the stars were aligning to make the best studio in the world back then. I still enjoy their games, but I seem to be in the minority which doesn't do much to help them financially.
In Japan, as it has always done. And you mean Enix IP, not IPs. Star Ocean 4 was probably the worst SO of all time, and, honestly, besides DQ, Enix doesn't really have any of their old IPs doing too well. Enix doesn't really have a richness of IPs like Square does.
Yes, DQ is still worth just as much, if not more, than what it was worth 10 years and 20 years ago and FF is a shell of itself, but, in terms of catalog, Square has a much better and diverse selection of IPs.
Runs company into the ground, critizes company that tries to correct his financial blunders.
The amount of series Square-Enix has fucked up the last 10 years has been astronomical. From Kingdom Hearts to Final Fantasy, Square has fucked up so badly when it comes to publishing titles. Even with IPs like Star Ocean, which had the enormously popular (by JRPG standards) entry on the PS2, they released it without any damn marketing at all in the US despite the growing fanbase for the series. Star Ocean could have been much bigger than it turned out to be, with it going from a multi-million selling series before Star Ocean 4, to basically being completely dead due to their incompetence.
Eidos fucking saved them. It should be renamed Eidos-Enix.
The amount of series Square-Enix has fucked up the last 10 years has been astronomical. From Kingdom Hearts to Final Fantasy, Square has fucked up so badly when it comes to publishing titles. Even with IPs like Star Ocean, which had the enormously popular (by JRPG standards) entry on the PS2, they released it without any damn marketing at all in the US despite the growing fanbase for the series. Star Ocean could have been much bigger than it turned out to be, with it going from a multi-million selling series before Star Ocean 4, to basically being completely dead due to their incompetence.
Eidos fucking saved them. It should be renamed Eidos-Enix.
Try 3,5.Sorry, 7 years.
People think Versus is the worst thing that SE is doing right now. I think it's investing all your resources on FFXIV.
I don't know if the merger is to blame but the company isn't really putting out great games anymore.
I agree that fucking up XIV was bad and possibly irreversible to the public, but you must not realize how much FFXI made them. MMO's that are successful print money.
Versus and KH HD are the only good things SE are developing.
FFXIV will bomb hard. It will probably lose as much money as XI made them.
Yes they are, even when Eidos side is left out. Stop thinking a couple of FF games on home consoles = all of Square Enix's production.I don't know if the merger is to blame but the company isn't really putting out great games anymore.
Yes they are, even when Eidos side is left out. Stop thinking a couple of FF games on home consoles = all of Square Enix's production.
Versus and KH HD are the only good things SE are developing.
FFXIV will bomb hard. It will probably lose as much money as XI made them.
The only good things are a game we know next to nothing about and an HD port collection? If we're including things we don't know very much about, we might as well include DQ11 and the new action RPG that Ichimura is working on. Also, what about DQ7 3DS?
You have to make games to make money.
Nier and various DQ stuff has been great.I can't say I've enjoyed an Enix game since after the merger.
Nier and various DQ stuff has been great.
Versus and KH HD are the only good things SE are developing.
I don't see how it is a failure. Someone may have to explain that one to me.