According to sources of the website Kotaku, inside Square Enix, there would be a storm in the air within the buildings of the company.
One month ago, a meeting would be held where Yoïchi Wada, president of Square Enix, would have said to his teams : " stop making games that only they wanted to play."
In other words, if his teams don't stop to create non-mainstream games, job cuts will follow.
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he sounds like an Idi0T.
Yes, he really does.
he wants his team to make games that are more carbon copies of popular franchises. A color by numbers production line of games... I guess that works but sometimes it's good to put out those niche titles to get some real creativity flowing. Lots of stuff they put out on the DS resently have had a good flow of ideas.
Thats a bit harsh.
If the developers are making a game that they don't want to play then they will only give 50% and not truely care about it. The games suffer and are exstremely unfun because the developer doesn't know if it is or not.
Last time a company introduced that mentality we got EA.
So I hope that he cools down a bit or someone gives him a talking too.
but this guy is running a company. he needs to make company money so the artists KEEP putting forth their creativity.
it's not about "copying the mainstream", it's about staying afloat to mold the mainstream in your image.
Squeenix WAS the mainstream with the FF titles. now that they pretty much flooded the market with remakes and offshoots, they are starting to notice that "oh s***, people are buying games OTHER than the ones we make. how the f*** did that happen?"
you CAN be creative and still follow the mainstream. Bioshock followed the FPS mainstream and made its mark. Uncharted followed the TPS and made its mark. you gonna tell me a "talented" company like squeenix can't get it's feet wet in some new waters and still succeed?