Chobel
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Fair enough.
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Square-Enix announces financial results for FY 2017 (record sales and profits)
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Fair enough.
TRUE ORDER
Member
Good to see that XV did well, it may have it's faults but I enjoyed playing it.
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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The hate for RoTR PS4 is really bizarre on the first page.
RoTR is a great game and probably one of the earliest showpiece titles for the Pro. Good the game sold well even after a year. Same for FFXV. The development time the game has had and how well the end product managed to come out, SE deserves it selling well.
RoTR is a great game and probably one of the earliest showpiece titles for the Pro. Good the game sold well even after a year. Same for FFXV. The development time the game has had and how well the end product managed to come out, SE deserves it selling well.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Fuck Sony fans why did you have to buy Rise of the Tomb Raider garbage bin trash vomit from hell
you played yourselves
While your opinion cannot be refuted and i appreciate it, rise of the tomb raider is hardly the caliber of title to deserve such a harsh insult?
This seems like something better suited to steam greenlight trash and the dark spaces of the google play store.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Yep. I think it sold well among ps4 pro buyers. And showed that those microsoft exclusive deals can be damaging to a title. I would be surprised if another publisher is as eager after what happened with tokb raider 2 on xb1.
CJY
Banned
I'm presuming what's wrong with RotTR is the fact that it was timed exclusive on XB1
Add the 10 copies they sold on the Windows Store due to the region exploit letting you get it for 7 Euros
phant0m
Member
The gaming community repeatedly fails us all, supporting such trash. We deserve our worst outcomes
Are you high? RotTR is far from the greatest game ever made, but it's a pretty good time, especially at $30.
I just have a hard time believing that Hitman was super expensive (relatively) because it didn't have bombastic set pieces or big emphasis on expensive super well animated cutscenes etc. It has a very good quality and nice visuals but just doesn't strike me as a super expensive game like big open world games or RotR type games. I don't think Hitman was cheap, obviously not. I'm just super salty.
As am I.
The fact remains that Tabata, despite questionable directorial skills, rescued a project Nomura failed to deliver and turned it into a very successful, if flawed product, Yes, FF XV could have been more but unfortunately, the product needed to be released sooner rather than later.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Nice Fxv news. Now give me episode prompto already
I'm not surprised tbh. I mean we see mediocre games sell gangbusters all the time and great games bomb.
Just relieve Yoshida of his responsibilities of games he's not involved with, like the non-XIV MMOs - putting him in charge of Division 5 is just going to stunt the sustainability or growth of the other games, since he's so strongly associated with one of them.
If that means giving his his own single-player FF, so be it - I'm curious to see how he'd handle managing a new project from scratch instead of correcting issues with a flawed one and pumping it full of references to beloved games.
PshycoNinja
Member
Congrats to Square Enix, BD2, and Crystal Dynamics on the great year!
maybe if I had no memory of the actual original it was replacing to become the latest derivative AAA slog I'd think so too
Anyway dont want to keep focusing on that I said my piece, I just hope Hitman finds a way to come back. It'd be too tragic if that is the game that suffers after the amazing episodic titles.
Fuck Sony fans why did you have to buy Rise of the Tomb Raider garbage bin trash vomit from hell
you played yourselves
did you want every S/E western based studio working on marvel games instead?
I like Yoshi a lot but his handling of FFXIV post ARR (basically relying too much on FF nostalgia and failing to be innovating/ original past the WoW model) does give me some pause as to how well he would do on an offline title. I am hopeful Stormblood proves me very wrong though.
Laplasakos
Member
Final Fantasy XV-2 would already be a thing if SE had any free team around. Same goes for FFX-3.
Thabass
Member
Holy Christmas this. The man got me into MMORPGs. I HATED MMORPGs until FFXIV: A Realm Reborn. Now I want to play more of them. Hell, it might even get me into WoW.
The fact is, Yoshida is so good at designing and being meticulous when it comes to his games, that he'd be a perfect candidate for the next main Final Fantasy game. After Stormblood, he should go into a reduced role with FFXIV and then start a new project for Square.
Come on Square, do the right thing.
This is the first thing that came to mind as well.
I remember all those saying it was going to sell poorly on PS4 with the XBO 1 year exclusivity.
Just read this before posting.
This is an interesting situation.
PshycoNinja
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Tabata has reiterated this numerous times, but they have no plans to do a sequel. It's about updating the game with free updates and delivering the promised season pass add-ons right now.
Gamer @ Heart
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Heavenward had cut backs in terms of dungeons, designs, and patch delays compared to 2.0 that killed a ton of momentum. The first raid tier of HW cycle nearly killed the raiding scene because if it's insane difficulty. Hell, they admitted their testers hadn't even beat the final fight legitimately from start to finish before the shipped it.
Going to 2 dunegons a cycle was a big mistake along with some questionable minigames focus.
It got discounted to 30$ pretty quickly, I guess that the majority of PS players didn't buy it at full price but they felt that 30$ is a fair price for a "GOTY" version of a year old game so it probably sold lots of copies during those sales.
Like you said it's a very beloved franchise and most of its fans are on Playstation, that's why that deal didn't make any sense and that's why it won't happen again with this franchise.
Well I am glad that TR is in a good spot for now, and not like what Deus Ex and Hitman are currently going through.... Rise had some glaring issues, but I felt it was still going on the right track, and the new content that came alongside the PS4 version were excellent (well maybe not Lara's Nightmares, but everything else was).
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
I heard it was great.Fuck Sony fans why did you have to buy Rise of the Tomb Raider garbage bin trash vomit from hell
you played yourselves
It probably didn't change from the original shipment? I doubt it's selling out anywhere.
Well maybe but SE usually discloses their big seller LTD at the end of the fiscal year so I was wondering if I missed it.