/r/ffxivdiscussion: Square Enix Notification of Recognition of Extraordinary Losses

[WeebPolice]

Ah, improvements for the "LCS" I see. Carry on.

The LCS, what a magnificent piece of technology, citizen. Upon each Barrier Mountain, Lominsan Engineers have begun construction of the Lalafell Control System (LCS): a network of massive towers that will cover each continent in a well-tested Lalafell sedative. Soon, our citizens will be able to rest easy, knowing their children are safe from the threat of the Lalafell Menace.

It was a major failed project for SE and plenty of resources were wasted on that one. What's funny is that SE made the announcement for symbiogenesis as the market for NFTs were already in decline. By that time I believe Steam had already banned NFT games across the board from being distributed by their platform. Yeah... SE was well behind the curve on the NFT stuff.

Of course, citizen. Square heard of a new way to make money and scrambled together a poorly designed plan to capitalize on it only to find that most people see NFTs as worthless.




Forge's glow watch over you.

[Swordsman]

LCS

LMAO omg man.

Of course, citizen. Square heard of a new way to make money and scrambled together a poorly designed plan to capitalize on it only to find that most people see NFTs as worthless.

If overworking their team is the issue, they could also just...hire more people? It's not like SE is some small indie studio that doesn't have the money to do so. They would just rather throw their money at crappy NFT games and other trash than take good care of their big cash cow.

SE will always look for ways to maximize profits, whether thats cutting costs by not hiring adequate numbers of employees or trying to create cash grabs like NFT games. Their priority is paying dividends to their investors. Oh, and probably giving hefty bonuses to senior management too.

[Rieze_Xeero]

Quality over quantity and most definitely over NFT!!!

[WeebPolice]

SE will always look for ways to maximize profits, whether thats cutting costs by not hiring adequate numbers of employees or trying to create cash grabs like NFT games. Their priority is paying dividends to their investors. Oh, and probably giving hefty bonuses to senior management too.

Citizen, want to check out another upcoming game by Square that will most likely be a failure? Look up Project Hikari which is a VR game based on a manga that will be available to play on the Oculus Rift. Please look forward to it /s

Quality over quantity and most definitely over NFT!!!

Very based, citizen.




For duty and valor.

[Swordsman]

Citizen, want to check out another upcoming game by Square that will most likely be a failure? Look up Project Hikari which is a VR game based on a manga that will be available to play on the Oculus Rift. Please look forward to it /s

That game's target audience is going to be really small lol. VR games are already quite niche at it is, although TBF, whatever that manga is could have a large audience that we just don't know of. But it does baffle me that SE is working on a game for oculus rift which was already discontinued, unless SE forgot to update the website to say it was meant for oculus quest, lmao.

[WeebPolice]

That game's target audience is going to be really small lol. VR games are already quite niche at it is, although TBF, whatever that manga is could have a large audience that we just don't know of. But it does baffle me that SE is working on a game for oculus rift which was already discontinued, unless SE forgot to update the website to say it was meant for oculus quest, lmao.

If it was for the OR, I'm sure it will be backwards compatible, citizen. Fundamentally, the OR and the OQ aren't that different. One is just an upgraded version of the other with better features such as improved graphics rendering, faster processing, etc. The Weeaboo Police Department uses VR technology to train its Weeaboo Police Troopers on Lalafell control tactics.





We protect what is ours.

[SeverianLyonesse]

The fact is that none of the post-XII FF titles, other than FFXIV, have done particularly well. The franchise does not have the same reputation it used to have, and the only reason XIV is keeping the company alive is because it heavily leans on referencing the glory days of the franchise when the games were just a lot better (most of SE's other money makers were similar nostalgic crossovers like Dissidia, Opera Omnia, and KH).

There are two ways where the franchise is failing. The first is simply failing to deliver on the broad world-building of prior titles. I think XVI did better than XII, XIII, or XV in trying to provide other things to do than hunt quests as side content, but the franchise still isn't at the level it used to be. I would also postulate that more recent titles simply haven't done as good a job in making distinct, fun character archetypes to play with. While I can see why the franchise may have felt the need to try to grow more adult/realistic beyond these features to compete with a very saturated JRPG market that followed in its wake; I still feel like these features were what made FF a superlative experience and they could still be captured in a more modern way without being totally discarded for the comparative blandness we got in XII, XIII, and XV.

The second is that the stories just have not been as thematically deep as they were in VI, VII, VIII, and X. The golden age was really about taking the fantasy setting to really delve into some impressively philosophical topics for video games, and we just haven't seen that in recent games. They have kind of settled back on safe, tropey fantasy plot structures.

More to that point, I think the most egregious problem with the writing is the increased insistence on retrodding the "six summons" canon as increasingly central features of the plot. Summons have slowly been swallowing FF worldbuilding whole, and frankly that whole concept was already played out in XI. The reason why none of these titles have been home runs is because we have *already* explored the Ifrit/Shiva/Ramuh/Titan/Garuda/Leviathan thing in XI, and again in XIV. It is why both XV and XVI weren't totally mind-blowing to anyone because so much of the framework was familiar. The franchise really needs to step away from the summon canon. It needs to write stories again that weren't so focused on summons. And it would heavily benefit from introducing fresh blood into the summon roster like we got with Quetzacoatl, Eden, Valefor, Ixion, Anima, Brynhidlr, and Hecatoncheir.

If they want this franchise to return to being the gold standard of the genre, they need to stop safely recycling stuff and come up with new ideas again instead of rehashing old ideas. And they need to so soon because XIV is almost out of things to steal from the golden era games. I'm honestly stunned SE haven't realized this yet.

[Swordsman]

The Weeaboo Police Department uses VR technology

Yep you know the popular saying. "Train like you fight."

I'm honestly stunned SE haven't realized this yet.

I'm sure they have, it's just they don't want to do anything about it. SE is a big proponent of "if it ain't broke, then don't fix it," and I don't mean in-game systems which are actually broken, cuz there are several of those that won't see a resolution any time soon. As long as the flow of cash isn't broken, SE will continue along with the same formula. Unfortunately, we can absolutely expect to see the same ideas recycled from the golden era games over and over again because it's what most customers are willing to put up with and shell out money for.

[WeebPolice]

Yep you know the popular saying. "Train like you fight."

Of course, citizen. The WPD VR training tech is very adept at mimicking the Lalafell Warrior Elite's movement and combat techniques. Training for our Weeaboo Police Troopers has never been more realistic.





Fight as one.

[Rekh]

Yep you know the popular saying. "Train like you fight."



I'm sure they have, it's just they don't want to do anything about it. SE is a big proponent of "if it ain't broke, then don't fix it," and I don't mean in-game systems which are actually broken, cuz there are several of those that won't see a resolution any time soon. As long as the flow of cash isn't broken, SE will continue along with the same formula. Unfortunately, we can absolutely expect to see the same ideas recycled from the golden era games over and over again because it's what most customers are willing to put up with and shell out money for.

Yeah this. They're going to chase "younger gamers" for the next 50 years just like they tried the last 15 or so years. Making XVI like devil may cry and with virtually no rpg elements was them chasing the fortnite type gamers who need to mash the buttons every second they're playing the game. Ironically Baldur's Gate 3 came out the same year with rpg elements that eclipse anything FF has done in its history and sells tens of millions of copies and was objectively the game of the year.

I expect FFXVII in 2033 to be another attempt at Dante-fying the franchise. I expect XVII to not have long cutscenes, it'll be 90% gameplay, 10% on the fly dialogue; a quick 10-12 hours adventure like most DMC games; they're going to stop pretending FF is an rpg series.