Square Enix Financial statement: DT 42m USD DOWN

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Originally Posted by Zakuyia

Sure play msq in english, and like the other comment said. If this is your answer u missed the entire point of DT complaints are pretending to ignore thus you fall into group who are helping the games destruction.

To name some of issues: story / pacing / jobs / raid tunning / pictomancer / mch / bugs / DDos / graphic overhaul / broken models / pvp busted ps4 / etc. Im sure we can compile more but honestly thats just naming a few issues. 7.0 has been a mess.

ARCADIAN IS FUN THO, MUSIC IS GREAT, DIFFICULTY IS AMAZING

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All the side content in DT so far has been much better than the MSQ... As much as complaining about wuk seems overboard, she is just a terrible character all around... Yaana in her 5 minutes of screentime in the Arcadion storyline has shown more emotion and given more reason to care about her than wuk did in like 10 hours of MSQ...

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Originally Posted by CaptainLagbeard

All the side content in DT so far has been much better than the MSQ... As much as complaining about wuk seems overboard, she is just a terrible character all around... Yaana in her 5 minutes of screentime in the Arcadion storyline has shown more emotion and given more reason to care about her than wuk did in like 10 hours of MSQ...

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Yeah prolly main reason Im staying on DT, the side content is looking decent and hefty, as it stands; usual Raids, 24m, Ults, Relic(mentioned falling back to a HW esque grind), Shade's Triangle, Cosmic Exploration, Variant/Criterion, and recently mentioned 24m Savage. Gotta see if they do rewards proper, but yeah its mosly side content im looking to this time around...

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I stopped once I saw it was dated May 13th.

Good job baiting people.

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Yeah they almost got me.

While the financial report IS From march 2024, it doesn't change the fact that Square is currently fucking themselves over recently. You might go "FF16 and FF7 remake did great!" but then you see Square president himself said FF16 and FF7 remake part 2 were below expectations.

One such article here: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fin...ctations-line/

You also have to remember Square threw a bunch of games in the garbage months ago, along with having lots of live service stuff games die barely a year or two after making and releasing them. Remember FOAMSTARS? I bet you didn't even know that game existed. A Splatoon rip-off 4 v 4 shooter that is heavily monetized that Square Enix released 8 months ago is already being brought down from 30 bucks to free-to-play because it flopped that badly.

Square of course does have some big-ish hitters on the horizon in the future: Dragon Quest 12 is being made, Kingdom Hearts 4 is going to rake them in millions, FF7 Remake part 3 is obviously being worked on, and probably FF17 also most likely being discussed. But the here and now is they are NOT doing that good and they know it.

And it's probably safe to assume FF14 is absolutely nowhere on Square's radar of things to put a ton of money back into probably because they know that some fans are hardcore enough to where they WILL keep paying and playing no matter what. They also probably just don't have any money to spare to anything else since they keep wasting it on dumb shit that they really shouldn't like more live service flops and blockchains and NFTs.

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Originally Posted by ZXN

While the financial report IS From march 2024, it doesn't change the fact that Square is currently fucking themselves over recently. You might go "FF16 and FF7 remake did great!" but then you see Square president himself said FF16 and FF7 remake part 2 were below expectations.

One such article here: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/fin...ctations-line/

You also have to remember Square threw a bunch of games in the garbage months ago, along with having lots of live service stuff games die barely a year or two after making and releasing them. Remember FOAMSTARS? I bet you didn't even know that game existed. A Splatoon rip-off 4 v 4 shooter that is heavily monetized that Square Enix released 8 months ago is already being brought down from 30 bucks to free-to-play because it flopped that badly.

Square of course does have some big-ish hitters on the horizon in the future: Dragon Quest 12 is being made, Kingdom Hearts 4 is going to rake them in millions, FF7 Remake part 3 is obviously being worked on, and probably FF17 also most likely being discussed. But the here and now is they are NOT doing that good and they know it.

And it's probably safe to assume FF14 is absolutely nowhere on Square's radar of things to put a ton of money back into probably because they know that some fans are hardcore enough to where they WILL keep paying and playing no matter what. They also probably just don't have any money to spare to anything else since they keep wasting it on dumb shit that they really shouldn't like more live service flops and blockchains and NFTs.

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Rebirth was never going to do well and whatever they call the third game will do even worse. Just look back at how sequels to main games have always sold. Yes, I'm aware that Rebirth isn't a sequel, but it's seen as and being treated as one.

Also I have zero sympathy for Squenix. They had the entire corner of the JRPG market then they decided to squander it. One non-MMO Dragon Quest game in sixteen years and they decided to make mainline Final Fantasy into a crappy Devil May Cry clone with terrible writing. If I wanted to play an action game I would, I love Devil May Cry and enjoy similar games. All they did was ruin a perfectly good series in pursuit of the wider audience.

You then have bad taste in writing.
More power to you I guess.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

Probably more like:

They take food away from the goose to fatten the calf, but unfortunately some idiot farmhand ran over the calf in the tractor. Instead of firing the farmhand, though, they just keep buying new calves, which keep getting run over. We're now on calf #10 and the goose is severely malnourished.

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Difficult to fire the farmhand when they are in top manager positions unfortunately. The problem here is never the dev worker on the ground, the problem is always a management problem.

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Originally Posted by Raven2014

What we see with FF14 is when a child, despite being very successful, is not the parent's favorite.

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Tbf that is every Final Fantasy not numbered VII.

You can clearly see what game is the favorite of SE. FF14 always gave me the feeling of being successful DESPITE SE indifference towards it.

I agree with most of your points. Another one though:
It’s pretty natural to not bet everything on one product because if that breaks away chaos ensures.

To me it seems SE is desperately trying to make a new successful IP for a while now to have a solid second leg to stand on and they throw everything they have at achieving that goal.
If 16 had been successful it probably would have been milked to starvation.

FF14 sells anyway so why should they do more than necessary?
Even “all the new content” is not here yet (and who knows how good it will be or if it will just be copied assets like Eureka Orthos was).
The expansion itself is as barebones as any other if you are not a raider or someone who levels all jobs.

And later on with Wicked thunder with the little context they give you and this being but intensified on her savage fight with the mirrors at the sides with literally 3 pictures that rotate but give you so much more.

Simple a demostration of show, don't tell, and i love it they showing they can do so much with so little

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Originally Posted by ZXN

And it's probably safe to assume FF14 is absolutely nowhere on Square's radar of things to put a ton of money back into probably because they know that some fans are hardcore enough to where they WILL keep paying and playing no matter what.

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Correct

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