Square Enix to report record 22.1 billion yen loss
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Let me guess, all the losses are linked to work that was consulted on by Sweet Baby Inc like firms?
Possibly. They are blaming it on unreleased content. No telling what titles they canceled with Sweet Baby stink on it. Could also be they canceled titles at their request as well.
Wasn't that game with the ugly annoying black chick something they worked on with Sweet Baby Inc?
If so given how bad that flopped I can easily see them just cancelling it all than waste money publishing it.
Black Girl Gamers.
It's ironic, all of these "consultant groups" are older than SBI, and now they just get called "SBI-like."
To be fair for Square, turning a tech demo for a new engine that has been absolutely trash is an uphill battle. They probably saw it as a wash and took the DEI money to get something back.
Forspoken? Yeah that was squeenix x black girl gamers.
The dialogue was so bad it went viral and spawned countless memes, and that can be attributed directly to BGG. Also the main character wasn't originally black.
I'm not too sure on this. Pretty sure the original Luminous Engine tech demo that essentially showed that world still had a black girl focus.
Square enix already had an ethics department too.. so they have all these i puts from commies to fuck up games.
I bet a bunch has to do with their NFT shit. They had said they really wanted to incorporate NFTs into their games and that's pretty much vaporized.
They also have their own "ethics" department. I guarantee you SE's profit margins will greatly improve if they just gut the entire department. You don't need to pay for useless employees; no time will be wasted on internal "consultations"; and games will subsequently be out at a faster cadence and at better quality.
Bonus outcome: SE perfects AI translation and we don't have to deal with wokalization.
Forespoken and the rest is more or less just rehashing on past glories. (DQ, FF, SaGa, Star Ocean, and Live a Live) Seriously just doing what people expect them to do, churning out the same shit but with a bloated budget.
Don't know about woke consulting for their japanese IP, don't know, don't care.