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Why Does Square Enix Develop So Many Social Games?

Siliconera: "Square Enix sure make a lot of social and browser games these days. There’s Traveling Fairy for Mobage, Emperors SaGa for GREE, and Final Fantasy: Airborn Brigade to name just a few. Recently, Square also announced Star Galaxy.

Why so many social titles?"

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Godmars2904148d ago

Easy money.

Relived easy money anyway.

Lovable4148d ago

Exactly. It's sad, but this is true.

Ranma14147d ago (Edited 4147d ago )

Because their CEO (Yoichi Wada) is not that clever.

Their CEO could have used the time and effort of their employees on better things and make more money.

But his decision making is all wrong. He doesnt know how to take calculated risks.

izumo_lee4148d ago

They saw the success of the apps for Apple & figured that they can do the same. The problem is that many Apple app games are super cheap (0.99) whereas Squarenix is charging up to $15 for some of their social games.

yeah it is easy money but only if you price it accordingly so that the masses will be interested.

dark-hollow4147d ago

Which is really laughable. Most big gaming companies like square enix and Sega try to sell their iOS/android games for $6 and more and they sell like crap compared to other mobile games.

How do you like mobile gaming now, huh Sega and square? Nobody would buy your crap if its anything more than $3 dollars. Better get used to it if you think mobile gaming is the "future"

MegaLagann4147d ago (Edited 4147d ago )

Money...that's all I got.

animegamingnerd4147d ago

just like everyone said money but square is being complete idiots on how they are pricing games

Smashbro294147d ago

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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I’m Glad Atlus & SE Changed Dates To Avoid Competing With Shadow Of The Erdtree

Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."

H92d ago

More intelligent than guerilla games

raWfodog1d 18h ago (Edited 1d 18h ago )

Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.

HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.

It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.

VincentVanBro18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.

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Yuji Naka guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of lies

Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.

Profchaos16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

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

solideagle15d ago

can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?

Chocoburger15d ago

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.

carrotcakeag15d ago

@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.

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Top ‘Dragon Quest’ Producer Steps Down in Square Enix Overhaul

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.

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shinoff218321d ago

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.

jznrpg19d ago

Hopefully they don’t. From this it doesn’t sound like that is the case and development is just taking too long.