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Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So basically they shut down their games actively being developed or games like NieR Reincarnation (I am legitimately upset they did not patch it to work offline, that was a great game that died yesterday) just so they could claim a loss. This is likely for tax reasons, if I had to guess.

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philycheeze@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
From the looks of things, Warner Bros was just the beginning of this practice.

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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nah, companies have been doing similar practices for ages. Its just they’re being more public about it now.
  
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  - kbin_space_program@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.
    
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Starkstruck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I still don’t understand how even with a tax write off they make more money than if they actually sold the damn thing.

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