Kotaku Australia:
Square Enix are notorious for bleeding their intellectual properties dry. You like Final Fantasy? Here's 119 Final Fantasy games, etc etc. And now that Square owns Eidos, things are only going to get worse.
Addressing shareholders following Square's purchase of Eidos, Square Enix boss Yoichi "Imperial Hot" Wada told of the company's success in creating a "number of deliverables from one worldview" for their franchises. Which is corporate speak for "we make a fuckton of money from Final Fantasy spin-offs, anime and toys".
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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God, I wish Square-Enix would just die already.
I really do not like this but if this allows for a new Legacy of Kain game. I will be ok with that. I could see Fear Effect selling really well if there would be a new game in that series. A new Gex could also be fun to see. Also I would love to see a new Freedom Fighters game too. With SE wanting to make more sequels I hope they will look at all the different IPs Eidos owns because they own some really nice ones. Plus some have not seen a sequel in years and it would be nice to play them again.