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Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

www.ign.com Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

Square Enix has revised its approach to PC and console game development, and absorbed ¥22.1 billion (approx $140.9 million) in what it calls “content abandonment losses.”

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Games @lemmy.world Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

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We tried to tell you, turning Final Fantasy 7 into an actual trilogy and radically changing the story wasn't what people wanted. Maybe next time listen to the complaints.

You dont get to turn one of gaming's most beloved franchizes into a dumpster fire and just expect people to buy it.

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Only people who played and liked FF7 Remake would be interested in FF7 Rebirth.

I played FF7 Remake and hated it. Weird action battle system, and so much padding.

And they turned FF16 into Devil May Cry. This makes me lose interest in modern FF series.

Will Dragon Quest III HD 2D remake ever be released?

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- The only part I enjoyed in FF7R was Yuffie's part. I found it quite fun.
  
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- I really didn't like FF7 Remake and I really wanted to like it. I'm a fan of the original and I liked the FF15 game despite it feeling a bit rushed and unfinished at the end and even with the battle system.
  
  I think you do have a point about the action battle system. There's something about it that just feels imprecise and unsatisfying compared to games in the new category it's in (although I enjoyed FF15, so you can't trust me)
  
  What really bugged me is the cinematics/voice acting and story. I just finished GoW4 and Ragnarok back-to-back. I'm not expecting every game to be like GoW, but the cutscenes and stuff in FF felt so corny and cheesy after playing a game like GoW.
  
  Also, they seem to milk Sephiroth to death. If this was a three part series, I didn't expect to battle him once in the first game and let alone see him as much as I did (I thought the mystery of Sephiroth would have been a teaser for later games). Also, no idea what's going on with the death clouds.
  
  The game itself looks gorgeous though. I felt if I sent screenshots of the this game to myself as a kid, I'd have my mind blown.
  
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  In remembering the original, I feel like the tone was similar in Intergrade. Yeah, we all probably have mostly memories of a certain "serious" scene with Aerith and a certain brooding edgy vampire type, but there was plenty of cheese to be had in the original.
  
  I actually played through GoW just slightly before FF7. Yeah it's a more serious - and Christopher Judge is the boss (even if he didn't say "indeed") - but it had some weird bits of cheese too and overall, it had the advantage of being a new plotline rather than a remake/modification of something that originally had an audience with 80's-born teens.
  
  I'm actually a bit of an initial naysayer on the remake. I didn't trust the change from ATB to ARPG style combat, chopping it up into episodes, or just the fact that Square has frankly been fairly disappointing in several of the last few released I've played (the plot of FFXV was a disconnected trainwreck and FFXIII was a grind).
  
  That said, it came out on PC and then hit a sale and I quite enjoyed it. Yeah there are cheesy bits, but many of them feel pretty intentionally cheesy and overall I felt it paid decent homage to the original, especially the Don Corneo part etc
  
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Should have simul released pc

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SQEnix has been led by shitty management for years now. I wish it wasn't the case, but if they end up going under, it'll 100% be on management and no one else.

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- I thought I remember them selling off big properties a few years ago and wanting to go crazy with NFTs. Selling off Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and stuff.
  
  You can tell with those decisions it's really about management. There was also all sorts of drama with FF15 behind the scenes.
  
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TBH I don't really mind a change in gameplay for FF7 or FF16. I don't mind alternative story direction or action combat. But I'm not a purist and my favourite was FF12 so I guess purists consider my opinion invalid... LOL

FF7R being divided up into multiple releases and sold individually has caused me to just wait it out and buy later. Surely I'm not the only one. I'm also a PC gamer, so sometimes I can't buy even if I wanted to and it just slips from my mind. Oh well.

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Don't worry guys, squareenix sold Eidos to invest on AI and blockchain gaming. I'm sure that will bring in the cash any time now

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I'm scared about the monetization of FFXIV now...

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