Yoshida stepped down from the board of directors

[anhaato]

Inaccurate, move along

[Kolsykol]

I mean he has been working on the new FF game + FFXIV ( with a recent new expansion which is even more intense ).
Bit much perhaps to juggle three responsibilites with being on the board too.

I am not too worried about FFXIV really, whether he's on the board or not I think he regardless holds immense respect at the company and he's still the game director.

[Theodric]

XIV and XVI will be directly impacted by any major issue that Square Enix encounter. Much like how money was siphoned from XIV to feed XV by the company's own admission. I don't doubt that the staggering losses sustained by the Avengers game resulted in something similar.

Given that the company has been flirting with NFT's, I suspect it's only a matter of time before they make their way into XIV. Much like how there were no plans for a housing demolition system but it ended up being added at a later date regardless.

[Izar_Chillen]

XIV and XVI will be directly impacted by any major issue that Square Enix encounter. Much like how money was siphoned from XIV to feed XV by the company's own admission. I don't doubt that the staggering losses sustained by the Avengers game resulted in something similar.

Given that the company has been flirting with NFT's, I suspect it's only a matter of time before they make their way into XIV. Much like how there were no plans for a housing demolition system but it ended up being added at a later date regardless.

They also sold some major I.Ps (TombRaider, DeusEx, Thief , Legacy Of Kain) and Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal studios.


They wanted some of that Marvel gravy and made the worst possible game with that super expensive licence .


I forgot that also had another blunder after Marvel disaster with Babylons Fall

[pikalovr]

good he needs to get far away from this company if he could take XIV and make it it's own thing without the reigns of SE looming overhead i would say go for it. SE is getting ready to basically bankrupt themselves with how they talk/act and the fact XIV accounted for majority of their revenue but won't invest in it.

[Kolsykol]

XIV and XVI will be directly impacted by any major issue that Square Enix encounter. Much like how money was siphoned from XIV to feed XV by the company's own admission. I don't doubt that the staggering losses sustained by the Avengers game resulted in something similar.

Given that the company has been flirting with NFT's, I suspect it's only a matter of time before they make their way into XIV. Much like how there were no plans for a housing demolition system but it ended up being added at a later date regardless.

Money being siphoned into different projects is just normal tho.
Inb4 people get madge because I mention Blizzard and WoW, but Blizzard didn't put all of the money that WoW made back into WoW development.
They put it into other projects too.

It makes sense as a company to take money from your big successful money-maker and invest it elsewhere too.

[OtakuSempai]

Source: https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/n..._Topics_EN.pdf

This doesn't bode well regarding the direction of the company... or even XIV itself.

He probably stepped down because his input wasn't being taken into consideration and was just stressing him out.

My only hope at this point is that FFXIV takes the way of Destiny and they separate to form their own studio. Given their talk of the future direction of the company, I'm betting SE is stupid enough to let this happen.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

Legacy Of Kain

Truly? Well, i hope that means more of that might come out someday, although it'll most likely be pushed on some "number one fan" who'll take a dump on it, as is their wont.

[Kolsykol]

The more likely scenario is quite simply that having three jobs simultaneously was the stressful bit.

[Deceptus]

Hopefully he addresses it during the live letter, would clear things up.