Square Enix News (Posted By Kohki Originally Some Place Else)

Regarding this: http://www.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/110512.pdf

Why would a company reforecast with a month to go in their fiscal year? Becasue they are a joke is why! And to even put the earthquake in there is "dishonorable" becasue this forecast was done long before it happened. Its just another excuse for "The Wada"... Lets begin..... Why no new news on the "greatest game ever concived"... Final Fantasy 14. Wasnt that supposed to come out in April at the end/begining of the fiscal year for PS3? Wasnt that the mecca of online gaming and SEs new direction with more towards online gaming? Oh wait... its still free to play for the 1000 or so players still around and no hope in sight. Lets move onto Final Fantasy 13... which really gets me going. Such a horrible game by many standards... except those 10 and under today. But yet it sold so many copies, over a million in the first day. Plat status and yada yada! It sold by word of mouth and nothing more. 'Ohh its FF, WE HAVE TO BUY IT!" Plus it was the first FF game in the main series since 2006... a 5 year absence! Also what 'helped' it was its shinny graphics being on the current gen consoles. Also what helped was that in was sold across 2 main consoles and not one like all previous main FF titles. What is not mentioned is that just after 3 months of being out in Japan, prices fell to nearly 90% off the ORIGINAL PRICE... What game has ever done that? NONE! What also isnt mentioned is that the sales figures are for the combined sales of both PS3 and xBox. Bottom line, this game sold becasue of two reasons: ONE- There wasnt a main FF title in 5 years (the sheep craved anything FF) and TWO-It carried the FF name! Plain and simple. SE can slap the FF name on a pile of shit and someone would buy it just because its FF. Look at the reviews of the game AFTER its release... UTTER CRAP but by then, SE got its money and then some. Luckly, by FF14, the sheep wised up and saw SE for what it was. A parasite that tried to continue it current motto: "Put the FF logo on anything and they will buy"

This company has gone down hill since the merger some years ago of Square Soft and Enix... they have lost direction regarding FF alone. At one time, working on 5 FF titles at once. (FF13/13.2/14/Vs/Agitto) Remind you, 4 of these are MAIN console games! Come on! No company can be strung that thin and still make quality games. FF13 was a point and click JPop bonannza! 13.2 will be re done for "the people that had issues with with 13" Most likey similar to that of Star Wars EP 2 to a much darker and maturer EP3. Sure it will sell but people will have learned by then becasue of the FF14 fallout... is anyone still playing that seriously? Not to mention, I took a look at my PS3 collection and at the store... when it was up in April. Have you seen how many titles have an SE logo on them now? How many reboots and redos and revamped titles carry their flag? A lot is the answer. The company is spread way too thin!

This compnay thought that FF13 and FF14 were going to be gold... no Platinum and as priceless as the air we breath and the water we drink to live. Im glad that for the most part, the sheep have woken up and seen The Wada and SE for what they are... GREEDY bastards that have used every excuse in the book and ever trick. all directed at the people that pay their salaries! Never once has the company took blame for anything theyve done. When games fail, its the people fault. When games dont sell, its the peoples fault. When they lose money, its the EQuakes fault. Enough of putting the blame on the people... BLAME YOURSELVES!

/end rant

Also found this. Talks a lot more in depth though:

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_t20/games-square-enix.html#hdng0

I would love to type more but I really cant think cleary. This topic pisses me off so much regarding FF and its current state. Read that second link which talks more in depth about cancelled titles and all the past of SE and how its become a parasite of today. All thw while, blaming the people and not themselves for making SHIT with the FF flag on it!