Hmm, seems as though taking on too many projects at once is startnig to have an effect on quality.

Thanks Square Enix for doubling the scope and halving the budget. SE really mismanages so many projects last few years and some from genuinely good devs.

Forget quality, a game flopping this badly is a massive indication that their marketing team literally didn't try with this game. Plenty of bad games have a great deal more players than this game had, by far less known studios. They must have completely abandoned the game for it to do this poorly.

I found out this game existed whilst scrolling twitter this morning..

Square Enix is the publisher and they doubled the scope of the game but halving the budget. SE has been poor about marketing some games lately. Neo the World Ends With You and SE was shocked it sold badly when it had zero marketing. Guardians of the Galaxy sold badly and SE was shocked when it had no marketing.  Then they got Avengers a bad game out of a good developer. They Marketed left alive more than GoTG or Neo. Left Alive was bad. They marketed The Quiet Man... a horrendous game. SE can't help itself.

Jesus. That's terrible. They shouldn't have released it if that's the best they can do.

I read 650k and had to do a double take. Damn that's bad.

Bombed hard

Hope Enix learn their lesson and stop spending money outsourcing their games, their best and most successful games are all in house, better to expand their current workforce

I do like square enix but I have to say. GOOD. The more these live services fail the less likely these companies are gona wana try to make them.

Im sure we are gona hear the same garbage response as we heard from the halo team. "Its gona get better over time". "We are listening to gamers". "We are working on the issues".

I really hope publishers drop service games before gamers start leaving.

In my opinion, this is not a problem of marketing, the lack of marketing was a right and conscious decision

The first teaser was released 2 years ago and made no buzz whatsoever. The graphics are ugly and the game itself looks uninspired and uninteresting, after the very lukewarm reception they more likely decided to given up the project and let Platinum finish the game only because they would probably have to pay for it regardless if they decided to cancel the game in the middle of the development 

So they released and let it flop

The problem of this game was both the conception and the execution of the game itself, the few reviews were very clear how bad and clunk the game is. And both Enix and Platinum are responsible for making a bad game 

A dev more than anyone knows when a game have no hope, if this was a hopeless game since the reveal, why spending money marketing it ?