J is Justice
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Post by J is Justice on Jan 24, 2013 13:14:42 GMT -5
Here's another company that's been f***ing up a lot lately, but which is their biggest?
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Post by darbus alan on Jan 24, 2013 13:23:00 GMT -5
Voted for DQX Online (I believe it's the worst selling game in the series in quite some time), the FF14 mess, no FF Type-0 outside of Japan, and still no Versus XIII. I get that the PSP was pretty much dead by the time Type-0 finally came out, but they could've up-ported it to the Vita or PS3. Or even just put it out as a PSN-only game.
I kinda want to say FF12, too, especially with how messed up 12's development saga was and how Squeenix's marketing department pretty much forced Matsuno out of the company with their micromanaging BS.
But I do want to say this: no FF7 remake is a good thing. A very good thing. In fact, if they ever did make an FF7 remake I think it'd be their biggest mistake since The Spirits Within.
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The Ichi
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Post by The Ichi on Jan 24, 2013 13:25:20 GMT -5
Pretty much most of their online efforts. You can't say 13 since I'm pretty sure it sold well.
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Post by darbus alan on Jan 24, 2013 13:27:34 GMT -5
FF12 and 13 were financial successes even if they sucked.
Also, Final Fantasy XI did extremely well for awhile. It never got to World of Warcraft levels, but it was consistently profitable for Square Enix for years. Probably still is considering they're still running it and XIV was a complete disaster.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 24, 2013 13:27:51 GMT -5
Literally everything after FFX's release.
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Post by King Ghidorah on Jan 24, 2013 13:31:54 GMT -5
Dragon quest X is doing very well also, its an MMO so it won't sell like the previous games, but make money for a much longer period of time. *Final Fantasy 11 is still SE biggest money maker and most profitable game* if they fix FF14 up, they will have another successful MMO on their plate. The reboot is looking good.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 24, 2013 14:47:27 GMT -5
Not realising that The World Ends With You has far more series potential than their usual tired franchises.
Just show all the different UGs outside of Shibuya.
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Post by Dub H on Jan 24, 2013 14:49:34 GMT -5
The TWEWY teaser site scandal and no TWEWY sequel
And fantasy XIV,at least the horrible console games sold well enough.
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Post by BigJerichool222 on Jan 24, 2013 14:50:54 GMT -5
Literally everything after FFX's release.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2013 14:54:12 GMT -5
People with pointy hair.
I want to play your games, not be repulsed by them for being too stereotypically Japanese. That's what the cheap sideshow animes are for.
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Post by DragonMasterP on Jan 24, 2013 15:11:11 GMT -5
Haven't been paying enough attention to know, but I will say this:
Screw a remake of VII, they need to make a remake of III/VI.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jan 24, 2013 15:13:08 GMT -5
Haven't been paying enough attention to know, but I will say this: Screw a remake of VII, they need to make a remake of III/VI. I agree with your theories and like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Post by Hurbster on Jan 24, 2013 15:14:29 GMT -5
FF14 problems damaging the company so much it caused the release of Deus Ex:Human Revolution to be delayed.
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Post by Cela on Jan 24, 2013 15:14:51 GMT -5
Making Final Fantasy into a pseudo MMO as opposed to a turn based game.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2013 15:15:06 GMT -5
FF14: How they seriously f***ed this one up is beyona me
No Versus 13: This one I was looking more forward to than the other 13. Now we're gonna have a 3rd 13 and still no V13. Inexcusible.
No FF5 or FF6 remake: This just upsets me.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 24, 2013 15:16:06 GMT -5
From a financial aspect, FFXIV has to be it. XI, DQX, FFXII and FFXIII were all successful games, even if they weren't well received (I don't think XII and XIII were that bad though).
From a personal aspect, I think they've been so focused on the fact that FFVII was so popular and they can't recreate it that they keep hurting themselves trying to do something drastically different.
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Post by Legion on Jan 24, 2013 15:32:03 GMT -5
XIII.
Online games are never going to interest me and aren't the series' bread and butter anyway, so XIV never bothered me. XIII was just so disappointing, so linear, so dull. It looked pretty, but that was about it.
I actually liked XII, there was lots to do at least.
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Post by Desi on Jan 24, 2013 17:05:50 GMT -5
Literally everything after FFX's release. Pretty much, though I voted for no Versus XIII release and XIV specifically. I wouldn't be shocked if they end up rebranding Versus as XV, if they don't abandon the game altogether.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Jan 24, 2013 17:08:07 GMT -5
People with pointy hair. I want to play your games, not be repulsed by them for being too stereotypically Japanese. That's what the cheap sideshow animes are for. Isn't that a bit of a silly reason, though? It's not shocking that a Japanese-based development company would tailor the designs of their games towards its home market.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jan 24, 2013 17:10:41 GMT -5
Final Fantasy 14... when the development team issue an apology about how terribly broken the game is... allow users to play for free for months until they fix it... and then finally close all their servers to fully reboot the game... you know something went horribly wrong somewhere.
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