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The Square Enix Griefing Thread
- Thread starter Scarlett Johansson
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I am not since the last time they made a decent non spinoff single player FF was over 15 years ago with 12
And only 15 (under the previous two FF entries, but 13 and 14 were reworked) only took 10 years to develop and is good at the endless driving scene.
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I did not know that, well I guess I'll wait to see what the game is like then out of curiosity
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And the Devil May Cry dude for combat director. The biggest hurdle is accepting FF is an action game with some rpg mechanics on top now.
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"Ohhhh... We don't do that here, sorry. However, if you purchase some of our discounted games like Symbiogenesis or Balan Wonderworld for a limited time, we'll sign you up for a subscription in which we send you 5 USB sticks filled with NFTs per month. I'll have to warn you though. You can't cancel it and there's a rare chance that some of these thumb drives we send you might contain illegal images."
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I heard some horseshit about FFXVI not being sold in Saudi Arabia and according to rumors it's due to faggot shit. This game has been looking great for a while, it told the faggots asking why no niggers to screw themselves, please don't give me faggot worship...
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Lower than expected? Kind of surprised, it looks legitimately good. Or is it one of those "IT DOESN'T HAVE 10 BILLION PREORDERS, IT'S FAILURE!" scenarios.
Well that, or the cost of putting your game in a console with minimal install base that has no games.
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I’ll bet that’s true, because Square’s been notorious about whining that games didn’t meet expectations when they sold about as much as anyone would expect. I sincerely doubt FF16 is getting people to run out and buy PS5s. Consoles could sell to people who wanted to play one game back when they were even as high as $300, but $500 seems a step too far.
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Have they said when FF XVI will be released on PC?
Now it's a real issue because they can't put the blame on the western studios anymore.
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I agree. They call it an exclusive, but it's really just a staggered launch. With PS5 leading, it is just not going to bring people to the console, and the new game hype has worn off by the time it makes it to Steam (even worse if Epic store is in between). Same thing if it were to end up on Xbox. It also doesn't help that they gave up on collector's editions for a platform like Steam (in part I assume because of EGS fracturing the platform).
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Since its Squeenix, it very well could be that the company set their expectations too high, but my guess is that it has more to do with the timed exclusivity. That just doesn't make sense in this day and age for a third party company. For third parties, you want to maximize your return on investment as quickly as possible. Exclusivity to one platform, even for a few months, doesn't make a lick of practical sense, especially since the PS5 is not the market leader (the Switch is) and it barely sells in Japan, which is where Final Fantasy tends to do its best numbers outside of America.
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I can think of three immediate reasons.
1) It's a staggered release, so people are just going to wait until it's out on their platform of choice
2) Economy is fucked, and video games are an expensive fucking hobby
3) People have been burnt far too often by preorders turning out to be shit
Add in how modern Video Games have had a track record of being shit with rarer and rarer exceptions, and how FF has been in kinda a weird spot the last few releases - look, bad as they were, I liked the 13 series and tolerated 15, so I'm not allowed to judge anyone there - I can't be too surprised Pre Orders are low. We'll have to see if that's a trend that keeps going, or if FF16 is an outlier (and how much of that inevitably gets blamed on "its a single player game", yes people are that retarded.)