GRIN says SE sucks..

[Mack]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...quareenix.aspx

I guess they were contracted by SE to work on a FF esque project before SE pulled out? well this is what they had to say:

According to the founders of Swedish developer GRIN, working with SquareEnix was an incredibly frustrating task. They were working on a Final Fantasy project called "Fortress," and Ulf and Bo Andersson clearly aren't happy with their experience.

"We wanted to come in and revolutionize Final Fantasy, which is exactly what they need," said the brothers. "The latest version sucks of course." At one point, SquareEnix requested the Anderssons send the code via fax. "It is as silly as it sounds. It is an impossible requirement, you can not send ascii or binary codes on the fax. It is backward. Really retarded. It was almost a criminal activity."

SquareEnix thought that their concept art didn't look like Final Fantasy, so the brothers decided to test them by sending concept art from Final Fantasy XII. As they had before, they responded with "It does not look like Final Fantasy."

GRIN may be six feet under now, but their former staffers have formed other studios since the closure. It's possible we may see what they've been working on at E3.

Here is the tech demo for the game in subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YzdzYbEWOg

I just saw it for the first time and tbh it looks horrible imo.

[Vesperia]

Oh, I wish the article was longer.

[Cairdeas]

You know I keep seeing people bring up fortress as if it was authorized by SE. But I've never seen any documentation from SE about it.

[Gramul]

Looks like that bad communication thing Square was talking about.

Hope they get their shit together.

[viion]

And people tell me not to say mean things...

[Randis]

"We wanted to come in and revolutionize Final Fantasy, which is exactly what they need,"

"We wanted to come in and westernize Final Fantasy, which is exactly what we needed coz we hoped to use SE as a jumping board for our startup. They terminated the contract and we are MAD now,"

fixed.

Seen the techdemo video of Fortress, was not impressed

[Cairdeas]

fixed.

Seen the techdemo video of Fortress, was not impressed

neither was I.

[viion]

at least it has Ridable Chocobos.... (but i agree it looks so disgustingly bad lol)

[Kilta_Firelotus]

WoW mack you must be bored.... Said company no longer exist.... So who cares.

[Mack]

WoW mack you must be bored.... Said company no longer exist.... So who cares.

I wish I can just ignore you but I can't: let me clear things up a little between us, I love Square Enix, I hardly play ANY OTHER JRPGs aside from Final Fantasy, so lets be clear that I don't wanna humiliate them because "I'm trolling" or "I hate them". The difference between me and you is that I don't believe in brand loyalty, whereas I love SE for great titles like FFVII, FFX, FFXII, to name a few...you love FFVII, FFX, FFXII for a brand name like SE. I hate brand loyalty, I don't buy into it, I don't think anyone should because its a form of brain washing, that is why advertising works so well and why companies spend way too much on it. The only reason I made this topic is because I just read it on the ZAM forum for the first time and decided to share, so you don't like it and its upsetting you? you can take it up with GRIN.