Square Enix shutters the studio behind Forspoken
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Banking the studio on a mediocre open world game with a painfully urban American black girl with cringe-worthy dialogue as the protagonist, only to have it blow up in your face? If only there was a term for that.
The first tech demo style trailers for the game before it got BLACKED.com were so good. Anyone remembers how was it originally called? With a witch in red.
Oh, found it. Agni's Philosophy: https://youtube.com/watch?v=p-x4S1L1yZY
She's even got re-clothed into black.
Also she was attacked by gun toting darkies lol
Hilarious.
You just know some vile subversive faggot walked in and told them their game needs to be 'updated for a modern audience', and they were dumb enough to fall for it.
I remember those videos. I had high hopes for game creation when I saw them. For spoken came from that!?
I remember being worried that it would be another cinematic experience and not a game. That said, this video is amazing. The main character has the chance to be the villain just as much as the protagonist.
Instead, the entire game is the villain now.
Holy crap, we were robbed.
There's grounds for a legitimate debate between "corporate incompetence", "willful self-harm" and "woke advertisement budget."
“Getting jewed”, “getting kiked”, “kikening”?
On the topic of Final Fantasy XIV- another failure to this degree will likely destroy the company
Was that a lie, or did XIV's amazing turnaround give them leeway again? Either way, their executives haven't learned shit.
Edit: oh hey, they're firing the president. MAYBE they'll course correct?
https://twitter.com/RPGSite/status/1631538950279135238
That news is a decade old. A Realm Reborn, the rebranded version of FFXIV, launched in 2013 with resounding success. That success has been largely consistent to this date. Forspoken isn't a catastrophic failure. Square Enix knew Forspoken would not be well received, which is why it was relegated to a studio that was essentially disposable. The decision to shutter the studio this soon after the game's release is an admission The Message™️ isn't a sustainable business model.
I know that remark is old. I was one of the people that actually played FFXIV 1.0. And it's not just Forspoken being a flop. It's an entire physics engine that they made themselves and only used for TWO games. (FFXV and Forspoken). And then there's Crystal Dynamics and the failure that was Marvel's Avengers. They may have finally sold off CD, but the absolute failure of Avengers is still a red mark on their ledger.
I don't think we've seen the last of the Luminous Engine. Although XVI utilized Unreal in its earlier stages, many people seem to think the final product will utilize Luminous. I doubt SE would let it go to waste. As far Crystal Dynamics goes, their history of mistakes is as old as the company itself. I'm sure they fully intended to push The Message™️ with the Avengers game. I'll give SE the benefit of the doubt and assume they just wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the Avengers franchise at the time. That's why they were looking for another sucker to offload CD to after the game flopped.
I played XIV recently up to the latest content, cleared all current savage raids and was appaled that they only release 4 encounters every 8 months. Vast majority of the player base seem to be just using this as a roleplay hub. I know it has a lot of side activities but I'm still surprised how it supposedly has so many active subs year-round.
They're making good content. But it's still a long grind. I couldn't keep subbing having reached what was the furthest point at the time, and didn't buy the next expansions from there. I'm sure I could have a couple more months of fun if I get the next expansions from where I left off (Shadowbringers and Endwalker), but once I reach meta, it's back to the boring grind.
YoshiP did really awesome shit to not only revive XIV, but turn it into an amazing experience that's still going. He's the biggest reason I haven't completely written off SquareEnix as a developer.
It's worth playing through the last two expansions just to see the story wrap up. Felt like a good finale to everything that was built up. Just don't bother with the end game stuff, quit after you've finished Endwalker's story. The Nier raids are worth seeing once too, but you can use the Duty Finder for those.
The Endwalker post-plot stuff is the FFIV antagonists. If I come back and get that far, I'm DEFINITELY going through that.
FFXIV is a game that actually diversifies its content and end-game raiding is not be all end all.
As someone who spent several years playing FFXI, I have zero faith in SE's executives to do anything other than follow their own whims, consequences be damned. They do not listen and they do not learn. All evidence to the contrary is happenstance or deceit.
Maybe.. they think ff14 became successful because trannies like it.
Wow. That was really fast.
I completely missed all that Forspoken shit, someone give me some funny video about it.
(https://youtube.com/watch?v=x3m8pSu57DE doesn't really count)
Were the Square Enix execs like:
"Did I just do that?"
"well definitely with my assistance."
"I did not just do that."
"We did"
"I just closed a studio with my awful policies"
"Perhaps our connection has somehow awakened bankruptcy"
"I just got a hundred and fifty people laid off... with my politics."
"I keep hearing...I...I...I"
"I just got people laid off. With my freaking politics! Ha Ha! Yeah okay that is something I do now... I go woke, destroy game production, get people laid off - you know what? I'll probably push child love next"
"Now you're being ridiculous"
"Oh that's too far? Good to know there's a line"
Nvm those last two lines would never be spoken for real.