Square Enix Financial statement: DT 42m USD DOWN

Financial statement here:

https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/i...4q4outline.pdf

“FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail” marked the start
of a new scenario for the sub-segment and that that is our first post-pandemic expansion pack release, we will need to monitor
trends there closely, but we expect to see a stable trend in the sub-segment’s profits.

the mogstation team needs to step up their game

FFXIV continues to be Square's only consistent source of profit, resources will continue to be drained to projects so garbage their engine won't start, let alone get off the ground. In other news, grass green, sky blue, nothing ever changes, please get this game off my computer. I'll take Blizzard back at this point, please god I beg you give me an MMO dev who cares about their game.

wo00mp wo00mp

I don't understand what they're doing. FFXIV is their golden goose and seemingly has been for a long time. I would expect them to be trying to make it the shiniest, most successful game they can in order to rake in the biggest profits they can. Instead, this golden goose is slowly being starved while resources are put into failed projects, NFTs and other stupid stuff. Why? What am I missing?

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Originally Posted by PercibelTheren

I don't understand what they're doing. FFXIV is their golden goose and seemingly has been for a long time. I would expect them to be trying to make it the shiniest, most successful game they can in order to rake in the biggest profits they can. Instead, this golden goose is slowly being starved while resources are put into failed projects, NFTs and other stupid stuff. Why? What am I missing?

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Best I can figure is that think it's worth the risk. They are weakening the goose but potentially fattening the calf. The idea being that XIV has a dedicated base so they can afford to pull some Legos out from that tower to put into another one.

The problem is, this worked at first. Shadowbringers was still a success and personal feelings aside, so was Endwalker. So they kept pulling more food out of the gooses box and giving it to the calf. Now the gooses getting thin and the calf is dying because they gave it bird feed.

I think my analogy got away from me.

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Best I can figure is that think it's worth the risk. They are weakening the goose but potentially fattening the calf. The idea being that XIV has a dedicated base so they can afford to pull some Legos out from that tower to put into another one.

The problem is, this worked at first. Shadowbringers was still a success and personal feelings aside, so was Endwalker. So they kept pulling more food out of the gooses box and giving it to the calf. Now the gooses getting thin and the calf is dying because they gave it bird feed.

I think my analogy got away from me.

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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.

I just finished the msq and the raid series. My language is set to Japanese. Game is as great as ever.

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I just finished the msq and the raid series. My language is set to Japanese. Game is as great as ever.

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Let's not pretend the complaints about DT boil down to just voice acting. Hell, I thought the voice over was fine and I still thought the MSQ was an absolute garbage fire.

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Originally Posted by PercibelTheren

I don't understand what they're doing. FFXIV is their golden goose and seemingly has been for a long time. I would expect them to be trying to make it the shiniest, most successful game they can in order to rake in the biggest profits they can. Instead, this golden goose is slowly being starved while resources are put into failed projects, NFTs and other stupid stuff. Why? What am I missing?

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I worked at another game company that did this pre-pandemic. Our CEO went as hard as he could with blockchain projects despite having 0 longterm plans for profitability utilizing them. We suspect he planned on getting dudebros onboard to invest because "blockchain bro" and "crypto bro" and trying to figure out monetization later. We had multiple very successful mobile games which were each pulling in over $1m revenue daily and all that money was being dumped into failed crypto projects. To keep the projects going, he pretty much demanded players be milked for every last cent they had, causing them to eventually all quit within a few short months. The stupid blockchain stuff didn't stop until he was finally ousted by the board, but by then the damage had been done.

As far as Square goes, my guess is that they have some people in management that initially directed the company towards NFTs and other stupid projects and are so heavily invested in them, they refuse to change course because it would be their heads/jobs on the chopping block. So they'd rather run the ship onto the reefs, get canned and (probably) get some sort of golden parachute.