Very Concerned for the Future of FFXIV and SE

[RitsukoSonoda]

Yet they had a full on Sex Scene with Nudity in 'The Last of Us 2'.

Yet they've needlessly censored numerous Japanese titles. One of which apparently the company was forced to redraw all the characters as animals in order to have it on the Playstation.

[Johners]

Yet they've needlessly censored numerous Japanese titles. One of which apparently the company was forced to redraw all the characters as animals in order to have it on the Playstation.

Some of these Japanese games were slam dunks for their sexual content though. You’re not fooling anyone when the 1000 year old character looks like a 15 year old girl. PlayStation is too big of a platform to risk publishing certain games on it, even if it were locked behind an adult only section of the store that you couldn’t access until customer support did ID verification (which they do in Japan already).

The content of Square Enix games would be entirely fine if Sony acquired them, there would be absolutely nothing to worry about. If you play vanilla anyway, some of the mods for FF7R or FFXIV on PC are slightly across the line Sony would publish themselves.

[Raoabolic]

The content of Square Enix games would be entirely fine if Sony acquired them, there would be absolutely nothing to worry about. If you play vanilla anyway, some of the mods for FF7R or FFXIV on PC are slightly across the line Sony would publish themselves.

*Watches SE's ethics department change scenes and textures in the Chrono Cross rerelease*
*Watches Sony censor large breasts in Japanese games and release TLoU2 in it's entirety*
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[Vav2021]

Some of these Japanese games were slam dunks for their sexual content though. You’re not fooling anyone when the 1000 year old character looks like a 15 year old girl. PlayStation is too big of a platform to risk publishing certain games on it, even if it were locked behind an adult only section of the store that you couldn’t access until customer support did ID verification (which they do in Japan already).

The content of Square Enix games would be entirely fine if Sony acquired them, there would be absolutely nothing to worry about. If you play vanilla anyway, some of the mods for FF7R or FFXIV on PC are slightly across the line Sony would publish themselves.

[Kyrj]

I wonder why Square Enix would want to end their company suddenly. If it's just what shareholders want then that's unfortunate.

They haven't exactly been batting 100 lately. Every thing they've put out that isn't FF has been a massive flop and even that's arguable if FF is still staying afloat.

[Johners]

They haven't exactly been batting 100 lately. Every thing they've put out that isn't FF has been a massive flop and even that's arguable if FF is still staying afloat.

Final Fantasy 13, 14 1.0 and 15 were all pretty poorly received overall. A Realm Reborn and it's expansions have really been the saving grace. I guess FF7R also but it's actually a multipart time travel sequel so I'm sure plenty of people are just waiting for everything to finally release in a decades time to play it all at once. Overall they're doing pretty poor when you consider all their historical IPs and the amount of amazing studios they have (well had in the case of the NA stuff they're selling to Embracer Group).

It's mismanagement to the finest and all things considered, I'll take Sony owning them over Epic, Tencent, Microsoft or Blockchain/NFT garbage.

[RyuDragnier]

They haven't exactly been batting 100 lately. Every thing they've put out that isn't FF has been a massive flop and even that's arguable if FF is still staying afloat.

*looks at various Mana and SaGa re-releases*
*looks at Voice of Cards games, Bravely Default II, and Triangle Strategy*
*looks at DQ11*
You sure about that? You POSITIVE about that?

[EaraGrace]

They haven't exactly been batting 100 lately. Every thing they've put out that isn't FF has been a massive flop and even that's arguable if FF is still staying afloat.

Triangle Strategy, Neo TWEWY, Forspoken looks good, Bravely Default 2.

Lineup hasn’t been that bad honestly. Some flops for sure but still pretty good.

Edit: someone beat me to it!

[Kyrj]

Triangle Strategy, Neo TWEWY, Forspoken looks good, Bravely Default 2.

Lineup hasn’t been that bad honestly. Some flops for sure but still pretty good.

Edit: someone beat me to it!

And for every Triangle Strategy (Extremely niche game btw not sure why you people picked that as an argument lol), mana game, and DQ game is a an equally terrible flop. If it's 50/50 that's failing.

[RyuDragnier]

And for every Triangle Strategy (Extremely niche game btw not sure why you people picked that as an argument lol), mana game, and DQ game is a an equally terrible flop. If it's 50/50 that's failing.

Gonna go back a few years for all our sakes, namely 5-6 years, and list the games that came out in the west.

2017: KH HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue (lol these KH names), Nier: Automata, FFXII: The Zodiac Age, DQXI, FF9 port, Lost Sphear, Monster of the Deep: FFXV, Star Ocean: The Last Hope remaster, Romancing SaGa 2 port, Life is Strange: Before the Storm

2018: Dissidia NT, Monster Energy Supercross (lol), Secret of Mana remake, SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambition, Gravel (no clue what this is), FFXV Pocket Edition, Octopath Traveler, TWEWY Final Remix, The Quiet Man (lol), DQ Builders 2, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Life is Strange 2, Just Cause 4

2019: KH3, Left Alive (a travesty upon Front Mission), Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy!, Oninaki, FF8 port (finally), DQXI S, Collection of Mana, Romancing SaGa 3 port, Battlefield 1944

2020: FF7 Remake, Trials of Mana, KH: Melody of Memory, Marvel's Avengers

2021: Bravely Default 2, Balan Wonderworld (lol), SaGa Frontier port, Legend of Mana port, Neo: TWEWY, Dungeon Encounters, Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars, the Pixel Remasters for FF1 thru FF5, Outriders, Life is Strange: True Colors, Circuit Superstars, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

This year: Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden, FF6 Pixel Remaster, Babylon's Fall, Triangle Strategy, Chocobo GP, Stranger of Paradise, Life is Strange Remastered Collection