Former Square Enix president and current Chairman of the Board Yoichi Wada attended a round table of the “Kurokawa School: Thinking the Future of Entertainment” and gave a few glimpses on the reasons behind the sudden influx of remakes, sequels and social games that affected the company in the past few years. He also mentioned the reasons why Eidos was pinpointed as the best purchase option to expand in the western market.
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
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.
Square Enix will be releasing three new manga titles later this year, all of which are available for pre-order now.
"In addition to that a lot of director level developers were required to participate to the remake of Final Fantasy XIV, making it inevitable to close some of the new IP projects and difficult to create a big hitting new IP."
So hang on a minute, because they redid FF14 it meant new IPs were cancelled.
What the hell I'd rather of seen something fresh from them then redoing FF14, they messed up the first time they should of just left it and fix the wrongs in the next online game they do in the future.
I want to know some of these "high end titles" social games apparently saved. They better not bloody say FF13-2 or Lightning Returns because I would of rather seen that money go to something else.
Seriously all I see here is Square spewing out a load of bullcrap on why they are delcined over the years.
I hate to hear that New Ip's died....: ( I miss when we got games like FF tactics or Vagrant story
"Remakes and Social Games _Saved High End Titles_ and New IPs"
Let that be a lesson. Dial down on the budgets:
Pay more attention to gameplay, let a younger generation unfold, and stop spending so much resources on cgi and "super realistic" graphics.
If they had to cancel some new ips for kh hds, ff x hd and ff xiv then that was the best decision they did this whole gen lol
Some might will disagree but I like this "new squareenix" :)