New Square Enix President Making Big ChangesFollow

Killua Logic:

Let's completely scrap a game that's three years in the development, shows promise, right after promoting the Producer of the game to corporate executive! Final Fantasy XIV doom-and-gloom!

Now... if ARR hasn't been so far in development and in beta, and FFXIV 1.0 failed the first time, the CEO might have a different plan than just hiring a new team and scrapping it altogether.

There's a point in game development I like to call the "point of no return", where it's more work/and expensive to scrap the current project than it is to finish and release it. I'm fairly sure given ARR's status in beta testing, it's not in trouble unless it's released and subscriptions aren't going well.

Now Final Fantasy Versus XIII, that's been in development seven years and still no real information. It's also held up development on future console Kingdom Hearts games due to the team being occupied with that. If I were CEO, I'd either re-appropriate the team to get things done or start doing something about that.

You have documented financials for this, or are you just pulling numbers out of your *** as well? It's ok, you can admit you have no really solid idea of how much they lost on this game specifically. Based on the last letter from the producer, assuming that mostly legacy and alpha testers were in phase 1, 100k legacy could be possible actually.

Then why/how would 14 be in trouble?

Currently the 14 dev team consists of many people from other departments / projects, to get 14 running quickly. I doubt they would need to layoff the staff, they will just go back to their projects, and SE will focus on key projects, like they are currently doing with 14. It's also pretty rare for a Japanese company to perform layoffs, so I think it was already a very tough decision to do the previous round of cuts.

His statements are made to re-assure investors, not some cryptic doom report.

Edited, Apr 3rd 2013 1:47pm by Louiscool

Um.. I think you just compared him to a prostitute lol.. Less honor more money!

Edited, Apr 3rd 2013 2:42pm by AlexandEric

Please no games from SE on PC, they all suck.

While I think they need to find someone else to do their PC ports (I had problems with both Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs despite my hardware being more than good enough to run both perfectly), I think "no games from SE on PC" would be a huge mistake. There's a lot of money to be made on Steam, etc.

I understand why their big hitter Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts games remain exclusive to consoles, but I don't think everything should.

I mean (just random ideas), think about a multi plat Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles online co-op game. That would probably do REALLY well on something like Steam.

Not sure if the latest Crystal Chronicles games are any good, I only played the Gamecube one, but it's just a random thought. A lot of money is to be made on PC games as well.

Edited, Apr 3rd 2013 3:09pm by Killua125

LOL! Omg that is hilarious hahaha

Call me whatever you like, but I'm still saying your assertions do not make any sense.

Mis-management and games becoming vaporware can soak up company funds. I don't see why they would cut funding on development of a game that is in the middle of beta testing and very close to the big re-launch.

Like I said in a previous post, the new CEO most likely would have taken a different route for FFXIV than the expensive route of scrapping 1.0 and hiring a team nine times the size to reboot it. But it's just a silly business decision to lay off FFXIV's team this far in until they see how it does after launch.

I will enjoy reading this thread again when the game has been released for half a year :) and then I'll bring forth my mighty stick and poke all those who wore the "End is near" sign. :)

We have been hearing that for like 3 years..... I have yet to see somebody stick me with a stick over XIV! Oh but i welcome the challenge XD!

^^^ Lmao! I actually laugh out loud when i read that XD!

I welcome your challenge Sir!