Square Enix Loses Nearly $2 Billion in Value Since Final Fantasy 16

[Rolder50]

I think PS5 FF16 benefited from releasing before BG3. A lot of PC RPG players will probably be playing that or will have that to compare FF16 to when they get around to it, and regrettably FF16 just doesn't really hold up in comparison. Any hype for 16 pretty rapidly diminished - I don't think it's really getting any 9 or 10 out of 10 word of mouth any more.

Can confirm. I'm a PC only player and have had a blast with BG3. After seeing what people are saying about FF16s combat and the like... nah I don't think I will bother.

[IvoryHawk]

damn, they had "the man" on the project and still couldn't bring Final Fantasy back from the brink of death, prety sure the advertising was dog, and all yoshida kept saying was "go spread the word" and to just buy a ps5 to play it, i'm almost 100% on seeing that in one of the LL's and they have 2 DLC's taking more time from EndSlop stagnation, yipee!

[LittleImp]

Can confirm. I'm a PC only player and have had a blast with BG3. After seeing what people are saying about FF16s combat and the like... nah I don't think I will bother.

FFXVI is the kind of game I see myself buying as a complete edition for like $8 three years from now on a key reseller.

[NekoMataMata]

Sorry but stocks value go up and down all the time. What matters is their actual finances and sales.

This. Some influencer on twitter(I mean x) could post a tweet with 5 words and suddenly stock prices will go up or down for something.

It's such a bad measurement.

[Absurdity]

isn't the guy a huge nft shill too? better brace for those as well lol.

Didn't the CEO change again already? I don't think the NFT shill and the current guy are the same person.

[Vahlnir]

Didn't the CEO change again already? I don't think the NFT shill and the current guy are the same person.

They replaced one NFT shill with another, so it's like the last guy never left.

[Sigma5]

good. they need serious crashes to wake them from their complacency coma.

[RitsukoSonoda]

If it goes down just a little bit more I can pull an Elon Musk and buy SE and make it a private company like he did with Twitter... Though I'd actually want to make the company better instead of doing a bunch of asinine things to get ppl to talk about me constantly in the news and social media...

[Jojoya]

Didn't the CEO change again already? I don't think the NFT shill and the current guy are the same person.

The new CEO is supposed to also be very interested in NFTs. I can't imagine why.

Also, the fall of the stock price for SE seems to coincide with when he became CEO (I'd need to find dates). That wouldn't be out of the ordinary for a company that has made a few questionable decisions with products and has changed to a new CEO.

Not being an investor, it doesn't really matter to me. I'm interested in FFXIV, not in SE as a public corporation.

[DivineP]

I'm really hoping they take this loss as an eye opener and go back to their base fans from what they was with Squaresoft.

I know Enix has pulled out some shelters like the pixel remaster and FF7R (I enjoyed FF7R.. I like FF7 IN general so a new spin on an old classic is fun for me)

Things like Avengers, Horizon etc to cater to other demographics are what is losing them money imo. (No, forums trolls, I'm not providing links or data so go away)

They try new things with everything other than FF14 which is bizarre. Yoshis is my Lord and saviour but omfg.. like what is he doing let FF14 stagnate!

I hope they learn from this downward trend and refocus on FF - hopefully FF14 with new ideas etc. Copium I suppose. We will see.