Matsuda stepping down as Sqenix President and CEO

[Midareyukki]

In most large japanese game companies it's not a developer or game director who ends up being a CEO. This is why Nintendo didn't pick Miyamoto or Takahashi to be the CEO after Iwata. It'd be a waste of their skillset that is more valuable if they can supervise or be directly involved with teams.

Maybe. I don't think Kitase's doing anything lately xD

But either way. I'm not saying that they should go for the other devs. I didn't mention Saito and Yoshida for a reason. I know very, very well that just because you're good at being a dev, it doesn't mean you can run a company, even if you're on the board. That was never my intention.

What concerned me is his experience with the company. The others don't have as much experience in the corporate side of things, but they know the company the longest. Meanwhile from what I see, Kiryu's experience has been the complete opposite: lots of corporate-side experience but few years with the company.

I just don't want to have the same as early last decade where Square Enix had almost zero idea how to approach their series and made really dumb questionable choices. But it's too early to tell, and it's not fair on Kiryu to judge him by his cover. Just expressing concern about how well he knows the company he's in and how much he knows about the videogame industry. Especially when more and more we've seen the industry care far too much about making a quick buck than its employees or having a product worth buying.

Or you know... the NFT plot.

Edit: nevermind, Kitase stopped being "Special Thanks" on the credits and is the Producer of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth xD

[Windfire]

The optimist in me (very tiny) say maybe it will be good, the realist say more of the same (biggest part) and the pessimist says it'll be worse (small). As another poster said though it's just far to early to make any judgments.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I honestly find it sad and pathetic how twitter is taking this news as if this is actually going to change the company for the better.

[Kranel_San]

Hopefully no more SE PlayStation exclusives with the new CEO and his business strategy.

[Absimiliard]

I've a sneaking suspicion this is going to be one of those monkey's paw things. A lot of people very vocally wished for Matsuda to step down, and we know what happens when you make a wish on a monkey's paw.

[GTK0HLK]

A Bona fide, "You think(any change will)do, but you (realize, it) don't."
[all the time at the very least]

<Just like some mergers won't change anything-looks at some specific company-, Whilst others just build surface level worry.>

[as others said, to early to tell or judge.., even if they were one in "tune" with what the "Market" or consumer wants.., that might not be for the best depending on the situation.]

Best of luck to the New Ceo.., Hope they at minimum do well, more than the old one.

[ReynTime]

Maybe. I don't think Kitase's doing anything lately xD

But either way. I'm not saying that they should go for the other devs. I didn't mention Saito and Yoshida for a reason. I know very, very well that just because you're good at being a dev, it doesn't mean you can run a company, even if you're on the board. That was never my intention.

What concerned me is his experience with the company. The others don't have as much experience in the corporate side of things, but they know the company the longest. Meanwhile from what I see, Kiryu's experience has been the complete opposite: lots of corporate-side experience but few years with the company.

I just don't want to have the same as early last decade where Square Enix had almost zero idea how to approach their series and made really dumb questionable choices. But it's too early to tell, and it's not fair on Kiryu to judge him by his cover. Just expressing concern about how well he knows the company he's in and how much he knows about the videogame industry. Especially when more and more we've seen the industry care far too much about making a quick buck than its employees or having a product worth buying.

Or you know... the NFT plot.

Edit: nevermind, Kitase stopped being "Special Thanks" on the credits and is the Producer of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth xD

It could have something to do with his experience at Dentsu, which is one of the biggest companies in Japan.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

So if SE keeps making bad decisions and eventually crumbles this could possibly mean that FFXIV could be over soon. Unless someone buys the IP from SE before they fail

[DiaDeem]

I wonder if it's because it's he's amazing at his job or if because his ideals fall more in line with his predecessor/NFTs than others.

I wanna hope that more than one executive in SE realized that NFTs aren't really that interesting to people (like Ubisoft eventually did), so they're specifically changing leadership to not deal with that anymore. If they wanted to stick with the same, Matsuda was doing just fine. So I wanna remain hopeful, but we'll just have to wait and see.

[ryouma17]

Hopefully no more SE PlayStation exclusives with the new CEO and his business strategy.

sonys gotta get people to buy playstations somehow, so long as sony gives square a nice fat sack of cash they will continue to do exclusives its just the way the industry is, same reason why games keep becoming epic exclusives before coming to steam