Yo, SE, Is it true?

[Cairdeas]

So Square Soft wasn't a "developer only" name, as you said? That's all I'm getting at.

Self Publishing under you Developers name doesn't make you a publisher.

It would be the same as if I wrote a book, printed it at a self publishing facility and sold it for profit. I would not be a publisher like ACE.

They didn't really start Publishing other peoples stuff till the Square EA partnership then when they bought Enix they start publishing tons of people.

[Onidemon]

Self Publishing under you Developers name doesn't make you a publisher.

It would be the same as if I wrote a book, printed it at a self publishing facility and sold it for profit. I would not be a publisher like ACE.

They didn't really start Publishing other peoples stuff till the Square EA partnership then when they bought Enix they start publishing tons of people.

in 1994 Sqaure Soft published Breath of Fire for Capcom in NA, that would make them a publisher.

[Toxsik]

Yeah I think "Square" It reminds me more of squaresoft in the past its short and to the point, sounds modern. I'm all in.

[Velhart]

From what I remember, they were simply Square at start, then they merged Sunsoft and then became Squaresoft. Then their finances led to to merging with Enix to become Square-Enix.

[Onidemon]

From what I remember, they were simply Square at start, then they merged Sunsoft and then became Squaresoft. Then their finances led to to merging with Enix to become Square-Enix.

It could be... it was also always refered to as Square even in back when it was Square Soft, it's just that the name Square Soft bring quite some good memories from the Snes days...

[Kiote]

Yea.. Unless they carve the cancer that is Enix out of their corporation it wont matter..

Thanks for trying..

[Jennestia]

The problem I have with SquareEnix is that Square and Enix had different ideologies when it came to RPGs, and merging them caused such a design clash it's not even funny.

[Onidemon]

The problem I have with SquareEnix is that Square and Enix had different ideologies when it came to RPGs, and merging them caused such a design clash it's not even funny.

I don't think that was the cause for the drop in quality.... when a cie becomes bigger, most of the time the quality goes away.... things are harder to control and they become sort of game factories where they value quantity over quality a la EA.

[XxOstiaxX]

Would not make a difference, the square of old is gone, the square of today, is just a shell of what it was back then <.<

[Onidemon]

Would not make a difference, the square of old is gone, the square of today, is just a shell of what it was back then <.<

Yup, suits are running Square now, all they care about is money, time frames and numbers...... artists don't have freedom anymore....