Games/Films/TV Chat

[Daz_4th 7]

we need mro moeny

[Daz_4th 7]

now

[Sam N 10]

They said “high end”. Translation: it didn’t make all the money ever

[-Kye- 10]

It's profitable now going forward, they spent more then they needed to on the development

[HuntSD#7607 14]

But but it didnt make a billion sales so therefore a failure.

[Otti#8624 26]

No it means it did make money but they were hoping for more, the reason why is because this game was made to be more for the casual audience ie. people who didn't like FF before whether it's because of turn based, story or characters.

Seems like turning away from people who are fans of the franchise didn't help their cause as much as they hoped

[-Kye- 10]

Square be like: so how much we looking at for cost of the game?

Director: about 40 mil

Square: I'll give you 200mil

Director: but I don't need that much Mr. Square, that's way to much and we will likely not make that back

Square: firetrucking take it

2 years later....
Square: Games a failure

[Otti#8624 26]

They already talked about the financial results and they are happy with it, they just expected more

Which is why stock is down cause they were betting on it

[-Kye- 10]

I forgot if it even counted digital

[Snakeskin94 13]

But that can't possibly be true can it??? They dropped WAY more money on 15

[Otti#8624 26]

Would be weird for official financial records to not count digital

[Limen 10]

to be fair. that game was in dev hell for like 8 years or something like that lmfao

all the money dropped in those years plus all the money dropped trying to make up for it near launch with marketing and all that extra fluff bs

[-Kye- 10]

Plus FFXIV

Which was getting redone from

The failed 1.0 launch

[Inçendyne 31]

The past few years having the pandemic cut in did not help staff being assured for work either.

Voicework even started beforehand and was paused before it amazingly picked up where it left off.

[Otti#8624 26]

I already know now that the next FF game is gonna go even more "casual" than 16 was

Can't wait for the RPG aspect to be completely gone

Then again FF16 was barebones, so it's not a high bar to do better than that

[Limen 10]

FF17 about to become a movie-game at this rate

barebones gameplay, over the top cinematics with QTEs everywhere

[-Kye- 10]

So FF13

[Limen 10]

we'll have to beg for spin-offs for them RPG scraps

yes but modern

[Otti#8624 26]

At least FF13 has a better world to explore when it finally opens up at the end

I can't even say the same about FF16

[-Kye- 10]

Cause that game played itself

[Limen 10]

at least it tried to be an RPG though

[Otti#8624 26]

Okay to be fair, the side games have at least been full on RPGs for most of them

I doubt that will stop so there's that

[Limen 10]

17's probably just gonna be Uncharted with a Japanese aesthetic

[HuntSD#7607 14]

Difficulty is gonna be non-existant also cant forget that

[Otti#8624 26]

Oh man it really will be