• BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    They will fire 40% of the current staff and replace them with Ai and more business middlemen.

    60% of their games will be live service and they will start their own PC app that needs to be signed in like Uplay.

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    I just want Dragon Quest 12 man, those goobers just dropped the title announcement trailer 4 years ago then left us out to dry.

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    Kinda telling that not a single one of those revealed titles on that roadmap is new. Not even a new game in an existing IP.

    I’m not sure how much time they have before they start to be perceived as ceding their long-term dominance in their major genre. Persona 6 is around the corner, and RGG has also been growing.

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      Didn’t they start abandoning their genra with the first mmo? None of the FF games since have gotten me to even give them a go…

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        FF12, 13, 15, and 7 Remake were all big sellers. It’s more the recent, poor performances of Rebirth and 16 that have raised eyebrows (although I can understand the argument that 15 and 16 moved away from being JRPGs from a gameplay point of view).

        The big names they are left with right now are FF14 (the other MMO), Nier (the brainchild of an auteur, not regular work product), and Dragon Quest. Maybe FF17 will be end up being more traditional, but with the way that series’ dev cycles have gone on top of the restructuring, who knows when that will surface.

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    That’s why yoshi stepped down from being a director, he will be the director of squareenix a realm reborn

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      Give me another Radiata Stories! That was an early foray into Suikoden style RPG making for them, and it was great!

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        I think that was developed by Tri-Ace, an interesting studio in itself (Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, and Resonance of Fate are also their games).

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          Aww damn I did a quick Google and saw SquareEnix on the box, maybe they distributed it.

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            Published, yeah. The two companies have worked together a lot. I was a big fan of Radiata Stories… Still have my PS2 copy.

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              I was a big fan of Star Ocean: Till the Ends of Time, and Radiata came out after, so that tracks with it being made by Tri-Ace. And wikipedia says so too lol

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    I feel like Atlus filled the space Square left after the merge, and it is living the golden age similar to what Square enjoyed in the 90s early 2000s. A bunch of quality titles coming each year in the most diverse genres (I think just missing something like Ehrgeiz, maybe they pull it out with the Sega merge).

    Not really sure what is different between the management of Atlus and Square Enix, but I feel like a bunch of Japanese companies are banking more on diluting their IPs and counting on the goodwill of people’s nostalgia. At least Square Enix did not drop everything to pursue the pachinko business (I hope).

    It seems that this article as based on this investor release, it has way more details omitted by the gamespot author https://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/20250514_01_en.pdf

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    Two suggestions for Square Enix. One, make your games cheaper but with more, and not pay to win, opportunities for whales to invest in you. Two, make some masculine games.

    Looking through their catalog on steam I see a lot of feminine games and feminine leaning rpgs. Sure that’s a good market and but if you wanna reboot, go for the opposite of that. Make a franchise that’s dark, gritty, brutal, mysteriously silent showing way more than it ever tells you about, serious but also a bit humorous, and badass about a main character who is easy for as many people as possible to like by default.

    It’s not hard but this formula isn’t obvious especially to people who love drama and theatrics over or as much as raw action and meaning.