A203D said:
Edios will prove themselves with Deus Ex imo. the fact that Wada bought Eidos shows hes thinking about the company from a global perspective. which is good - thats why FF13 went multiplatform, thats why Square have been releasing so many JRPGs like never before in Europe, thats why we've been getting so many special editions. because Wada is managing Sqaure to suceed on a global scale. this is why Dragon Quest games are releasing in Europe and this is also why Dragon Quest 9 had a monunmental marketing campagin here in the west thanks to Wada's partnership with Nintendo to publish the game here in the west - something which Sqaure were reluctant to do before. and you've moved on to talk about the mismangment of the Final Fantasy teams. - Wada has given them 5 years. and a million dollar budget, no other developer in the west has had such problems. how can Wada move them onto other projects when the fans will send him death threats again - they are the Final Fantasy Production Team, its the main game they work on - he cant move them to another project. even when he moved them onto the The 3rd Birthday, it was evident that they were the problem. since The 3rd Birthday has pretty much killed the Parasite Eve reboot here in the west. they failed and now he has to clean up their mess, plain and simply, we have no idea what Toriyama and Kitase have been doing - but their game designers. its up to them to do a QA/play testing of the product. if the CEO interfers - they would have it out with him. hes not directly involved with the production of games - and why would anyone want him to be. a CEO should be a business man - not a game designer. we saw how Sakaguchi nearly bankrupted Sqaure because he wasnt a buisness man - Wada is - and i dont blame him for Kitase, Toriyama, Nomura, etc taking years to make poor quality products. |
Look again at the credits of Square's games and you'll see how involved he is. And I never meant to say they move the entire production team, just management. Final Fantasy XIII not coming out the door 2 years ealier as it should have is his fault. It's his job to make sure his producers are doing their jobs, they're not, he failed to fix the problem and that game suffered. On top of that he's letting Kitase and Toriyama make the sequel, they screwed up terribly with the last game (Not necessarily saying the game was the worst game I've ever played, but something's wrong when after 3 years your entire production team doesn't know how the game should be played, that's bad direction and Toriyama should have been taken off the project a long time ago.) and you're gonna let them make the next game? You even admitted they screwed up and did they get a good talking too? No, and that is Wada's fault and he's gonna let them go on to ruin more games. Sakaguchi wasn't the CEO at the time of his movie, yes he wrote a bad story, but look at the gamble this way, if Sakaguchi wrote the movie properly and it was amazing, Square would have had a massive movie studio on par with Pixar and Dreamworks. Gamble failed and the CEO and Sakaguchi took the punishment, which to say is more than what they deserve, and is what Wada currently deserves. And as far as Dragon Quest goes, NIntendo published the game here in the "west" not Square all the marketting was paid for by Nintendo cause they were publishing it. And they did the same with Monster Hunter, so I don't think Wada's "partnership" had anything to do with it, it's something Nintendo is offering to devs not the other way around. As far as the expansion in Europe goes, I'd say it would have happened anyways, back in the PSX days when the old CEO was in charge the "others" region wasn't as big as Japan or North America, now it is, that shift to those regions was going to happen regardless of Wada's leadership or not.
