Square Enix's ability to screw its self over never ceases to amaze me.

[DerNebel]

BlkPaladin said:

DerNebel said:
Yeah, they turned to shit, 95% of the things their japanese branch does is mediocre or bad, exception being the odd handheld game once in a while (TWEWY, Bravely Default, Dragon Quest IX) and their management is totally retarded.

It's a pity really, before the merger Squaresoft was absolutely glorious, one of the best developers of the SNES and PS1 era, now I just want them to finish FFXV and Kingdom Hearts 3 and then they can go bankrupt for all I care, that or they make some serious, serious changes.

The reason why Squaresoft had to merge was the signs of retardation were showing even then.  They had trouble getting FFX out and even when it came out it was a buggy mess especially near the end. The games that were released during the development of FFX were not safe bets they were all games that were not RPG's, and at that point Squaresoft had an extensive history of games "failing" that were not in "their" genre of dominance. (i.e. Square was basically on one genre pony)

They blew almost their entire business on creating a studio and then making the world worse B movie with an AAA budget with great actors who just phoned in their parts.

If anything Squaresoft brought Enix down in this deal.

I'm not saying that Enix is at fault here or anything like that, just that prior to the merger they just made way, way better games. Squaresoft did some extremely stupid shit as well, I agree.