What happened to "SQAURE ENIX" after Ps2 era?

[AlfredoTurkey]

Hiku said:

AlfredoTurkey said:

On the bottom right of the US release, I see that little special hyphenated word...

You said: "The last great FF was the last one released under just the Square name."

FFX-2 fall under the category of the last great FF game released, by your criteria.
It was also released under Square Enix in the west, but none the lest it was released as just Squaresoft as well.

First off, that is not a great game and this is coming from someone who considers FFX their favorite. It's a bubble-gum, girl quest with pop music, giggles and rainbows. I remember when it came out because I bought it when it came out, thinking I was getting an epic sequel to an epic game. I can remember the fall out online... the whole bait-and-switch outcry. It wasn't well received by fans.

Second, Square merged with Enix officially in 2003 which means they were doing the deal sometime in 2002. They had already merged officially when that game dropped in the US... so even if YOU think it's great (I will forever question your opinions if that is true), it still wasn't released solely under the Square name. 

The Enix thing marked, as I said, a turning point. It showed that the suits were taking a different approach... and history proved that correct when all of their long time talent fled for greener pastors and their FF games continued to decline in quality.