I assume it was due to the game being stuck in on-and-off development hell for a decade before being designated the fifteenth game because they had nothing else on hand, and wanted to try and recoup as many loses as possible. Some people like 15 and I don't give them too much shit for it, but the history of the title's mismanagement and behind the scenes drama could easily fill a book.
Lemme rephrase myself, FFXIV is carrying the company.
Most FF spinoffs have been getting the mobage treatment at this point as it is. And, in a few rare cases, they've been doing better than main platform spinoffs.
I can only assume autism is why they run things like that. Nippon autism at that. At least said autism managed to unearth Yoshida, whose shoulders are probably carrying the entire company gaming division at this point.
It's literally just corporate autism, and it has been well-documented as such in the cases of XIV 1.0 and hiring on Yoshida in the first place.
The visuals suck, the story sucks, the game is loaded with predatory microtransactions, the netcode is dogshit and matchmaking relies on peer-to-peer rather than any dedicated servers, its poorly optimized, and because of all of these reasons which have, apparently, continued to go completely unaddressed, the game's online scene, which was supposed to be one of its biggest draws, is absolutely dead in the water with practically nobody bothering to play it anymore.
What kills me with the online is that if you don't want easily beaten bots, you need 6 people because the only mode is 3v3. Not having a 1v1 for online was a stupid move.
It was a thing at the time. Remember the Kickstarter disaster known as Mighty No. 9? Same sort of thing.
Not as bloated as DoA5 (because holy shit, its price tag is close to Train Simulator DLC); but there was a handful of DLC characters that came later, and then a lot of cosmetic DLC.
Because its a game meant for kids, and the Nintendo kiddie bias is alive and well. At the very least, Square Enix recognize (correctly) that Xbots and Sony Ponies won't give a crap about this game.
Because Square Enix are greedy assholes...and morons.
Basically the long and short of your comment is that Square Enix are morons and a lot of their issues are entirely self inflicted. Now that Sqeenix has basically sold off their western divisions, and can no longer blame them for their losses, it will interesting to see what happens now.
well that, and they are far better than they used to be but still have a ways to go.
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The only good thing Squeenix has going for it, other than re-releasing shit that's 20 years old, is FFXIV and Dragon Quest. FFXVI could go either way and FF7R always has an asterisk weighing it down (like the PC version being exclusive to Epic for a year for no good reason; at least, unlike Kingdom Hearts, it has finally come to Steam).
Kingdom Hearts also finally came to Switch, but as a stupid-ass cloud streaming thing, despite being a PS2 game that you'd think they could port over
I'm weirdly unsure about DQ12 with the change from turn-based combat.
Was that confirmed? I thought it was just speculation. If so, fuck Square for slitting the throat of every major turn-based JRPG left.
Yuji Horii surprisingly revealed that Dragon Quest XII will not feature a turn-based battle system, only saying that "it won't completely disappear, but it'll be different. Those who played Dragon Quest until now will still feel at home".
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