Faisal Shahzad of SegmentNext writes:
"It seems like it was only yesterday that the name SquareEnix, formerly known as SquareSoft, was synonymous with amazing JRPGs."
Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.
I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence
can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?
Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.
@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.
The top producer of Square Enix flagship Dragon Quest franchise is stepping down from the role, following delays in developing the next installment of the popular series.
Please o please don't turn dragon quest into final fantasy square enix we dont wont that. Dragon quest works well just as it I. Plus you'll piss off Japanese fans to.
Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
They have been stuck recently, trying to cater more to the western market has had a negative backlash. COupled with there slow development times with versus and the churning out of 13 games isn't helping.
Tripled with the fact they are struggling to loaclize agito and no word on kh 3 (two very anticpated games)
They have done well with the edios side of things and to be fair they did listen to fan feedback and made 13-2 a lot better than 13 but yeah this gen hasn't been too kind on SE
I am afraid. Square isn't the same with FF. I understand modernizing things, but so far they have shown mediocrity with the franchise. It's not a good feeling losing hope with your favorite developer.
All the Hitman and Tomb Raider stuff...when the hell did that even happen?! I must have been off the internet that day.