Square Enix has revealed that it cut 12% of its overall work force between 2009 and 2010 in its 09/10 fiscal year report.
Square Enix had 3805 employees at the end of March 2009, including the employees of Eidos who Square Enix would acquire the following month. By March 2010 the Square Enix group which includes what was once Squaresoft, Enix, Taito and Eidos had a headcount of 3338.
As mentioned above, that's a decrease of 467 staff, or 12%. The cuts came from across the board - studios were slimmed down in Japan as development of Final Fantasy XIII came to a close whilst Eidos studio IO Interactive suffered cuts.
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."
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.
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.
Here's hoping all those folks found other work.
That's a lot of people. I certainly feel bad for them. Good luck to them all, finding new work.
Good... Square is going down the shitter these days..... They need to present us with something ground breaking after they fucked up ff13... hell, if ff13versus goes to 360, that'll just be the nail in the coffin for me.