Square Enix Financial statement: DT 42m USD DOWN

[BabyYoda]

I just finished the msq and the raid series. My language is set to Japanese. Game is as great as ever.

money speaks louder than words

[Carin-Eri]

money speaks louder than words

Sad but true. Though to be fair, I think most (if not all) companies/corporation's preferred method of communication is Credit Card.

[Alice_Rivers]

What am I missing?

You're missing that modern corporations love shiny trends and hate money.

[TDawnstar]

I'll take Blizzard back at this point, please god I beg you give me an MMO dev who cares about their game.

Can't do that, apparently developing MMOs comes with a propensity of shooting oneself in the foot.

[TDawnstar]

To be fair, it's older data prior to DT release though. Still, it's nice to see a segment breakdown, they are kinda skimping on it in many versions of the statements.

[Raven2014]

I don't understand what they're doing. FFXIV is their golden goose and seemingly has been for a long time. I would expect them to be trying to make it the shiniest, most successful game they can in order to rake in the biggest profits they can. Instead, this golden goose is slowly being starved while resources are put into failed projects, NFTs and other stupid stuff. Why? What am I missing?

I think there is an element that people often not consider and that's hubris.

FF14 is old money now, and no matter how successful it is, it's not the baby or brain child of the leadership any more. Every time a new leadership come in, they all desperate want to put their own mark, their own stamp, their own project on the legacy. And a lot of time this means swept aside anything that was before them, regardless of how much sense it would make. And you see this happen pretty much everywhere.

If you compare this to say ... Hoyoverse. The games are basically the CEOs (they have co CEO) brain child, so they all lock in and push hard. Genshin and Honka's event you have the CEOs and leadership team get on stage to address the fan themselves. Comparing to that ... when was the last time you see anyone from SE's leadership team beside a tired Yoshi dress up for the event. And tbh, I think even Yoshi himself probably not interest in the game any more. He's getting a point where I feel he wants his own legacy now. FF14 is a game that he saved, but he wasn't the one conceived it, wouldn't suprise if deep down he wants to work on a new MMO that he personally create.


What we see with FF14 is when a child, despite being very successful, is not the parent's favorite.

[BabyYoda]

I think there is an element that people often not consider and that's hubris.

FF14 is old money now, and no matter how successful it is, it's not the baby or brain child of the leadership any more. Every time a new leadership come in, they all desperate want to put their own mark, their own stamp, their own project on the legacy. And a lot of time this means swept aside anything that was before them, regardless of how much sense it would make. And you see this happen pretty much everywhere.

If you compare this to say ... Hoyoverse. The games are basically the CEOs (they have co CEO) brain child, so they all lock in and push hard. Genshin and Honka's event you have the CEOs and leadership team get on stage to address the fan themselves. Comparing to that ... when was the last time you see anyone from SE's leadership team beside a tired Yoshi dress up for the event. And tbh, I think even Yoshi himself probably not interest in the game any more. He's getting a point where I feel he wants his own legacy now. FF14 is a game that he saved, but he wasn't the one conceived it, wouldn't suprise if deep down he wants to work on a new MMO that he personally create.


What we see with FF14 is when a child, despite being very successful, is not the parent's favorite.

FFXIV to SE is like Wuk lamat to WoL.. never liked by their parents

[ZephyrMenodora]

This is for the year ending March 2024. DT wasn't even released yet.

[Xuled]

Incoming mog shop items to counterbalance lol

[Derio]

It doesnt account for DT. It accounts for the lull period before DT. Basically it shows Endwalker's post game failures which DT aims to not repeat. Ultimately this year will be a success for them due to DT. Its the financial statement after next that we want to see because that will determine how good DT was.