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The Fury on 17 April 2024
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Chrkeller said:

Square is making poor decisions.

Honestly hard to know where they are sometimes. They seem to be putting effort into making old titles again (new Mana and Saga games arriving soon, a Valykrie Profile a few years back), then FF 16 and 7Rs being made etc yet seem to invest a lot in some games that failed hard. Marvel's Avengers, Forspoken, Babylon's Fall, I'm glad their trying as you surely cannot sustain yourself on old IPs forever but maybe invest correctly? Don't through everything at things like Forspoken.

Then their western side is a shadow of itself. They sold of most of their assets for a small amount. Embracer instantly licenced JUST Tomb Raider to Amazon for twice what they paid for the lot, was SquEnix seemed okay to sit on it instead of looking for this kinda deal?

Farsala said:

I am going to make a perhaps a not so hot take anymore.

FF is struggling because JRPGs are thriving. The sheer amount of quality JRPGs in the past few years has been astounding, and FF has to compete against them all. Atlus JRPGs have seen quite a bit of growth. Sega has joined the mix with Like a Dragon. SE competing with itself with DQXI, Octopath, and Star Ocean the Divine Force doing great. Soulslike JRPGs surpassing FF. Even small JRPGs being greenlit and pumped out every year.

All of these JRPGs have an effect on the overall budget for most JRPG buyers, and more people are passing on FF.

You aren't wrong. When it was announced that Japan sales were only like 250k vs FF7R's 700k there were a few people saying about why it failed then. Many mentioned what had released recently and a few of them were JRPGs which for all intents and purposes sold far more than expected. P3 Remake sold over a million in a week and while this is lower than Rebirth, it's massive for the series as a whole.

JRPGs used to just be FF, then others would exist but never reach their heights. Now it seems more FF is doing well but not as well and everything else good if not better than they have ever done.

So I can completely understand the thinking.

The Soulslike thing is something I never really thought about. Back in the day, FF was the peak of RPGs, with time and technology advancing, the king now is whatever FromSoftware produce. SquEnix in the 90s and 2000s only competed with themselves really but now?



Hmm, pie.