Comment on Square Enix share price drops amid claims Final Fantasy 16 didn’t meet ‘high end’ expectations
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
After months of hearing about how Final Fantasy needed to become Devil May Cry because RPGs are dead, watching Buldurs Gate succeed and FF16 fall short of expectations is kind of cathartic.
After months of hearing about how Final Fantasy needed to become Devil May Cry because RPGs are dead...
This sounds like a strawman to me. Maybe you meant that people were claiming that "JRPGs are dead"? In which case, holding up Baldur's Gate 3 of evidence to counter that seems strange. But I haven't heard anyone saying that RPGs in general are a dying genre.
The whole argument really is strange and all speculation. There’s plenty of areas where FFXVI and SE arguably fell short, but even by this guys own admission in his edit, the game met projections. If they were expecting to “unlock more” those projections would have been higher.
If you look at their recent financial report this seems to be nothing to do with FFXVI as sales in that “HD Gaming” and “Merchandise” area are up. Literally every other area is down, even MMO sales (FFXIV).
Whether people like the game or not, it seems to have helped prevent SE suffer from a worse dip.
Baldurs gate sold great for larian, those are square enix numbers, and not numbers that would cover the investment square makes into their games. You know this surely.
I’m sure you are also aware of how many turn based games square puts out every year? Spoiler it’s more than everyone else.
Carighan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah. What I wanted was something like the graphics of FF7 remaster with the underlying game elements of FFX, the whacky classes of FFTA2 and FFX-2 and the scriptable party behavior of FFXII. And it’s just nothing like that.
SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And here I am just wishing they’d make another final fantasy exactly like FFIX.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Back then I wasn’t a fan of the cartoony character design, but I definitely had my fill of hyper-realism in Final Fantasy.
SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As someone who has FFVI as his most replayed final fantasy, the return to cartoony that FFIX offered was such a bliss to me but I remember that it was really controversial back then.
IIRC people who prefered PSx era final fantasy didn’t care much for 9 while those who prefered SNES era generally liked it.
Mojojojo1993@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Sign me the fuck up.
Take my money