I sometimes play GTA 5 (because I have over 100 million in that game, I have I don't give a fuck money) and they've released a new update. Nothing major just a few additions and changes.
Since the update however, there's been two bugs, one that could delete ANY personal vehicles and the current one that randomly removes insurance so if your vehicle is destroyed you lose it for good.
Between Rockstar with this, Activision not knowing when to just shut the fuck up and Fable looking like their character artists use downs syndrome patients as their models it seems all the talent has gone out of the western video game market, at least in a major studio sense.
So which ones do you think are the biggest fuck ups that you're surprised hasn't burned down their own studio by now?
I think Square Enix still wins that prize right now.
What did they do now?
They sold off Eidos and their other Western studios, which were the only ones making them any money whatsoever, while spending a rumored $300 - $400 million on FFXVI, which is likely to be steaming dogshit on release.
If not, I may amend my statement after tomorrow. We'll see how the reviews are. But if what I'm hearing is true, that game is likely to bomb so bad against its budget that Square will likely be gobbled up by Sony within a year.
System exclusivity on that kind of budget is not manageable, that will be the biggest mistake with XVI. There's no way they'll make that back on PS5 alone, too many bridges have been burned with the old PlayStation audience. The XIV audience will absolutely eat it up, but how many of them are on PS5? I sure as hell am not buying the console of a company I feel betrayed its values for the one game I have real hype for.
Yes, SquareEnix is full of fuckups right now. YoshiP is not one of them, and I'm pretty sure he didn't make the exclusivity deal on XVI.
Haven't FF titles always come to PlayStation first? One way to look at it is you're going to have to port it but may as well make some money while you do. And also push development of the game to another stage with another team.