Matsuda stepping down as Sqenix President and CEO

[GTK0HLK]

Almost feels like people can't see the creator, the company, and the development team as all separate entities when in relation to the game..,

Seeing a few recent comments..,

<But that may just be my interpretation -after- seeing many others viewpoints in relation to XVI's media coverage lately. and what the dev teams intention with it was.>

XVI will do what it needs to do..,
Not more or less..,

People's Goalpost for success or loss will be different, and what they Assume the Company, or Teams view of success being.


I believe it'll sell.., would it surpass even.., most likely, specially since people will think of the Team making it..,

[And like mentioned above..,]
Media Coverage by not only the interviewers and "Content Creators"(Had to " " cause people like to make the low quality joke) has tempered many expectations of the Normal Audience for sure.

So at the very least, those that do take interest. Might at the very least get their money's worth.

[R041]

Almost feels like people can't see the creator, the company, and the development team as all separate entities when in relation to the game..

Yoshi said he pulled core team members away from XIV to work on XVI, so it's difficult to separate them when we're told Creative Business Unit III created both. https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...iness_Unit_III

CBU:III has been working on XVI for as long as XIV has been mechanically stale.

[Vahlnir]

Yoshi said he pulled core team members away from XIV to work on XVI, so it's difficult to separate them when we're told Creative Business Unit III created both. https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...iness_Unit_III

CBU:III has been working on XVI for as long as XIV has been mechanically stale.

Yep. FF XIV tends to suffer (more than usual) when SE has a major project in their pipeline, and this time it has been made slightly worse. I really do want FF 16 to succeed, but I also want FF XIV to continue to do the same. In my opinion, the quality of FF XIV has been going downhill for a while, and I really want it to get back on the right track.

[Atelier-Bagur]

I actually hope 16 does fail then they can finally open their eyes and realize that all the games they have been making are subpar.

You seek only validation. This statement of yours holds no value

[Amenara]

I actually hope 16 does fail then they can finally open their eyes and realize that all the games they have been making are subpar.

I completely disagree with your sentiment on this. First you are assuming that SE would see that as the reason for the game failing. I wouldn't be shocked if they looked at it with the mindset of HD games being a dying thing and push further into NFTs or mobile games. It could also have an impact on CBU3 budgets and make content in FF14 even worse off.

[R041]

For the record, I'm hype about XVI and hope it does great. It looks amazing and totally up my alley. I just wish I didn't have the sinking feeling that XIV has somehow suffered because of it.

[SaitoHikari]

A lot of their new games are flopping hard, mostly the somewhat smaller ones, remasters and remakes that are getting a positive reception, but those don't tend to really stay in the spotlight as long as a good AAA title would.

Unironically Octopath Traveler and Bravely Default 2 were probably the biggest recent hits from Square, and they started off as Nintendo Switch exclusives which likely didn't help them.

Everyone seems to be under the impression that Bravely 2 bombed though.

Octopath 2 doesn’t appear to have flown off the shelves like Octopath 1 did either, but it is enjoying massively positive reviews and word of mouth right now, so it’s likely to have crazy long term legs.

I think the most successful RPG they released last year was Triangle Strategy, which they said broke 1 million.

[Vahlnir]

Everyone seems to be under the impression that Bravely 2 bombed though.

Octopath 2 doesn’t appear to have flown off the shelves like Octopath 1 did either, but it is enjoying massively positive reviews and word of mouth right now, so it’s likely to have crazy long term legs.

I think the most successful RPG they released last year was Triangle Strategy, which they said broke 1 million.

Harvestella seems to be getting some decent feedback as well, even though it's not a huge success. I plan to snag that one when I'm able.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Everyone seems to be under the impression that Bravely 2 bombed though.

Octopath 2 doesn’t appear to have flown off the shelves like Octopath 1 did either, but it is enjoying massively positive reviews and word of mouth right now, so it’s likely to have crazy long term legs.

I think the most successful RPG they released last year was Triangle Strategy, which they said broke 1 million.

The latest sales figures I can seem to find for Bravely Default 2 is the Switch version selling about a million copies at the end of 2021.
Not exactly a giant success, but at any rate I imagine their sales for slightly smaller Switch games are beating PC, PS and Xbox AAA releases in revenue... Something I imagine the investors aren't too happy with.

I wonder how much money they spent on something like Forspoken, and how much of it has it made back as sales aren't exactly on an upwards trend on it...

[Raoabolic]

Harvestella seems to be getting some decent feedback as well, even though it's not a huge success. I plan to snag that one when I'm able.

I wanted to like Harvestella more than I did but Stardew Valley spoiled me real hard on farming/harvest moon style games.