Good time to buy stock in Square-Enix?

[buritoslicer]

Fail troll is fail

Reason why you don't feed the trolls.

[NefarioCall]

Reason why you don't feed the trolls.

i know this image is a decade old, but it still cracks me up.

[Isaveron]

Why would you invest in a dying company?

Why would you invest in a MMORPG from a company you're sure is dying?

[NefarioCall]

Why would you invest in a MMORPG from a company you're sure is dying?

^^This. I mean, ... would you invest 100 days of your life into anything, let alone an MMO if you thought all your character data was gonna be wiped in a year or two anyway? Maybe just for the experience of playing it to begin with... but ... that's a lot of time.

[yoshikwalla]

To those who are saying Square Enix is dying, pull off your black-rose-tinted glasses and get over the fact that you didn't like a Final Fantasy game or five.

People keep forgetting that Final Fantasy isn't Square Enix's only profitable genre. They own Eidos, therefore they own the publishing rights to the Hitman and Deus Ex games. They own Taito. There's Kingdom Hearts and DragonQuest, and their remakes of previous Final Fantasy games. Don't forget that they also have a lot of other sidegames as well for the DS.

There's a difference between being in a low point and dying.

[Laraul]

"Square Enix Holdings Co" does not trade on the NYSE. Only on the TSE. And I'd probably go short on SE when the game releases.

Weirdest question I've seen in a long time.

[Risae]

FFS WHY IS THIS THREAD STILL NOT LOCKED? THIS FORUM ISN'T ABOUT THE GODDAMN STOCK MARKET

[ThePatriarch]

I'm vested in SE. Every share you buy, regardless of what company it comes from is a gamble.

Now might not be the best time to buy shares however.

[Ingolf]

Whilst SE might not be at the level it was at previously, it's far from dying. If it was dying they wouldn't have the money to host elaborate conventions for XI or remake XIV. They see XIV as a nest egg, and dying companies very rarely take major risks.

If you see VII get a HD remake, then we're in trouble.

[NefarioCall]

FFS WHY IS THIS THREAD STILL NOT LOCKED? THIS FORUM ISN'T ABOUT THE GODDAMN STOCK MARKET

I might have unintentionally cornered them. <_> After all, we're talking about consumer confidence in the company here. Locking it might send an unfavourable message, nor will they say 'don't buy stock in our company', but i suspect they won't come in and say, 'buy stock' either. Additionally, SE could very fairly want to know a little bit about what is said here, if there's someone employed to study such things, and there should be... or heck, it might also be because FFXIV and this subject are related to one another, so it is about FFXIV. Run a search on the topic and see how many times it has come up.

On a side note, this thread got derailed last night and the mods came in and ninja modded it of all the derailing posts, so that might have been their decision.

In any case, SE is shifting their company focus over to MMOs, of which FFXIV is one, and a flagship title at that. I know that public opinion of Wada is mixed, but i feel his decision to move towards online games and mobile services is a very lucrative one.

Regarding the notion that this is a bad investment because no one else is investing ... i find it a bit silly. Worth paying attention to, but silly. If everyone were already investing, you'd have missed the boat. but sometimes there isn't a boat in the first place. There's a boat here.

I'm vested in SE. Every share you buy, regardless of what company it comes from is a gamble.

Now might not be the best time to buy shares however.

I maintain that metal ingots are a very good investment.
They still have value after all the money and stocks in the world don't.

Actually, i'd set aside an entire room in my place or storage shed and fill it with useful goods. ingots, shoes, yarn, cloths, and heck, Rice/grains/seeds. The stock market IS A GAME. it's a game built around agreed upon value of valueless things. Granted, that agreed upon value is important for the well being of you and your family so long as it holds, so a bit of this and a bit of that is probably best. but anything that is valuable when money has no value is most valuable of all.