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

[Neoyoshi]

Simply put, this is the result of SE's bad investments and poor decision-making during the previous management; Not to even mention what new management is doing to the company right now.

[Swordsman]

Also, I recommend you find some reddit threads from a user named CutieShut-In, citizen. Those threads and the comments within will provide great entertainment.

Bro, CSI is 110% actually Titanman. I'm not bringing those posts here, lmao. He get's pretty creative I'll admit.

They just need to invest more in NFT's, surely that will make the line go up.

Some SE c-level executive is definitely thinking about this unironically, lol.

[Kes13a]

these topics are not new and "shareing" them with us because we "need" to know likely doesnt do much since as was pointed out was a reddit discussion (we being the small % of the players who visit the forums, who if we visit the forums, likely knew this already). they made some bad financial decisions, hardly newsworthy

not really into financial reports or discussions, and really, seemed to indicate what is common knowledge in gaming, you have a few hits and many misses. experimentation can be very expensive.

I didnt think Forspoken was bad actually, in fact rather enjoyed it.

so as with most things, mileage varies... depending on who you talk to

[Doozer]

Nice to know that after the whole benchmark kerfuffle, the forums can still return to its natural state of nothingburger posts and fearmongering.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I recall reading they no longer want to do smaller games or westernised ones either and instead focus on bigger games they are good at making. I did enjoy a lot of their smaller titles but they lacked polish in the case of harvestella for ex.

[Boblawblah]

Do you have any original ideas or do you just repost reddit threads these days?

You didn't even post your own opinion on the topic. You just copied other people's comments without even crediting who wrote them lol

On topic: I don't care about this topic, FFXIV will be fine.

[Mosha]

Both XVI and Rebirth were part of this fiscal year, and both missed on the XBOX/PC Market. If they're reporting "Extraordinary losses" then that means the exclusivity deal was just not worth it..

I wouldn't have much faith in Sony's exclusivity deals if they were publishing their first-party games to Steam. The writing has been on the wall for the last few years. But tbf its SE its a miracle they are still in business.

[Oizen]

I cant believe the Company that released Balan Wonderworld, Forespoken, FF7:The First Soildier, Marvel's Avengers, Foamstars, Babylon's Fall, Chocobo GP, Various Daylife, and Symbiogenesis is having a hard time financially, I wonder if they can figure out the mystery as to why that happened?

I really doubt its FFXIV's fault.

[DPZ2]

I keep wondering why people assume that the primary money-maker for the Digital Entertainment sector of Square Enix is this game. At the 9-month mark, net sales for the entire MMO section were less than 20% of Digital Entertainment net sales.

Mind you, this was BEFORE the announcement of the release date for the next expansion.

"Content abandonment" is a nice way of saying "we decided to take a loss on the development costs of projects we will no longer consider bringing to release in order to save money for development of what actually sells right now."

We'll have to wait to see ...

[Ath192]

Prolly kiss goodbye to any hope of a XI remake.