Square Enix Revises Earnings Forecasts For Major Loss

[Abriael]

That goes to show that you can't base anything off of reviews unless it was your own review. :P In other words, "You can't knock it til you try it."

It's not even a matter of reviews, really (while most journalists are not even nearly through enough with their reviews of normal games, let alone MMORPGs), the problem is that financial reports are long and boring, and require some knowledge to be interpreted. Which means that journalists will read them as they want, putting only the data that fuels the "big headlines", and ignoring what counters their theories.

The funniest part is that some went as far as hypotesizing that the lack of listing of FFXIV for PS3 for the 2012 lineup means that it won't be released, when it says *clearly* just over the listing that it includes "only previously announced" titles.

Sometimes the lack of reading ability of some people (or their intentional will to mislead their readers) baffles me completely.

PS: an actually interesting tidbit is that they spell their intention of digitalizing their catalog titles, which could pave the way for a release of FFXIV on steam. Re-releasing on steam as soon as the title is solid would be a very sound move on their part.