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Jenova's Witness Red and Silver Hand Amarr Empire 9	Posted - 2013.05.24 08:40:00 - [1] - Quote The way Square-Enix have been going south as of late, this might really be their Final Fantasy. Link to slides. Key takeaways: -Ñ13.7 billion loss this last fiscal year. You might remember their last estimate was a -Ñ10 billion loss. They're going to spend less on development per game than ever before. This means more on mobile and more social games, while they get more control over their HD console development costs. This is partly expected at the end of a console's lifetime, but this muddies the waters considerably for titles people still expected to see this gen (Versus). They're going to focus on regional development (Read: If a game isn't expected to sell well outside of Japan forget about it). In other worse, lol Type 0, and more focus-group tested titles from Eidos IPs. Layoffs and a clamp down on years in development is a given. Lots and lots of restructuring up and down the development pipeline. See above about layoffs. Spend more on marketing. Don't forget they threw their sales and marketing under the bus for Hitman and Tomb Raider not hitting their projections. They are promising more frequent, more in-detail updates released to consumers rather than force them to wait years between vague non-news sentences burped out by Nomura. Sound familiar? They promised this in 2010. tweets http://abload.de/img/capturetmuyl.png Note that the target revenue next to the FFXIV tweet is for company wide operating income, not just the revenue from one title (because that would be stupid). The slides http://abload.de/img/capture1r8uvp.png http://abload.de/img/capture2f7url.png http://abload.de/img/capture362u67.png http://abload.de/img/capture4azuaw.png http://abload.de/img/captureppy3kft.png http://abload.de/img/capture1170ruz.png http://abload.de/img/capture64sumg.png http://abload.de/img/capturessv0jl2.png You really have to wonder if they have any unnanounced HD titles to show at E3 or at their separate, private conference. It might just be 2 hours of Thief 4 and XIV ARR footage. Edit: No, DCUO doesn't count because the PC and console clients are segregated. It's like they don't want money or something.
Jenova's Witness Red and Silver Hand Amarr Empire 15	Posted - 2013.05.24 11:57:00 - [2] - Quote lowratehitman wrote: In all honesty, the first version of ff14 online failed, as we all know. They lost tons of money and years of work on that project. They decided to continue with it, rebuild the game, and invest more into it, in which they have. I am hoping it is a fun game, in which if it is anything like ff 11 online, it will be great. If not, I guess I can always go back to playing Dust full time :) Yeah, they really screwed the pooch on FF14. The beta was just as bad as Dust's closed beta. In fact, it was such a bomb it held back production on highly anticipated games like Deus EX. They have the producer that made FF11 awesome in the past few years working on 14 now so supposedly it'll be better. Worse case, SE won't go away anytime soon. They're literally a Final Fantasy VII remake away from getting out of the red. It's like they don't want money or something. (If you haven't noticed from the name, that's my favorite out of the series)

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