With both the recent anime and Cyberpunk 2077's upcoming Phantom Liberty DLC, the game's reversal of fortunes is good news for the developer.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Danish from eXputer: "The Witcher's upcoming sequel needs to overhaul the series' combat system if it wants to make a big splash among gamers."
after what we see ( 2015 - 2024 ) in dark souls 3, blood borne , sekiro , dragon's dogma 2 , rise of the Ronin combat they should really careful and bring very good combat in Witcher 4 this time
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
Hopefully it was a humbling situation for them.
I see so many condemning them for the release, but they've pretty much been one of the most consumer friendly game companies since their inception.
Just hope I can say that come their next release.
It means they got away with exactly what they've been doing with the Witcher games, only to greater more notable degree. That the next time it'll be luck they don't do ever worse with cross media project ready to make up for it.
The red engine is being retired and the exec board learnt a very valuable lesson.
We can only hope that the next Witcher game on unreal 5 is given the room to breathe and the team are allowed to learn the tools to the full extent to deliver another great game.
The engine did cause a significant portion of the delays as it was being expanded upon and built upon while the game was in production and that caused many issues. Now that an external party handles the engine we should I hope a faster delivery of the game with less issues
Will Phantom Liberty DLC be Free?
One would hope great things, unfortunately, where the gaming community is now there'll never be redemption. A good majority of gamers expect nothing less than perfection as we're now in a world where opinions are heralded no matter how unqualified those offering them are. CD has done a great job in lue of Cyberpunk's rocky release and that earns them all the credit being afforded them. For all the naysayers still lurking dismiss them because a $60 game should never have that much of an impact on you anyway.