If you were in charge of Square Enix

[Black Magic Shopkeeper]

I'd...uh...
Remake the entire SaGa series (including Romancing SaGa and the original SaGa 1-3) and localize them for the US for cripe's sake.
And yes... they need Sakaguchi back. Final Fantasy is not entirely right without him. If not that, drop Final Fantasy and start up a new franchise.

Hey, DOD3 is a great game. Let's keep up with stuff like that. Put Yoko Taro in control of the 'depressing arpg' division and see what kind of crazy ideas he might come up with.

More stuff like Bravely Default

Less stuff like Thief. *sigh*

I'm not a fan of Kingdom Hearts at all, but keep stuff like that up for the sake of good sales and keeping revenue flowing in.

...And then I'd kinda force the development of a game based off my webcomic, because I'm petty and self-serving like that. *smacks lips*

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I don't care what happens if I took over, I would just make sure that there is an Easter egg involving myself in every Square made game, whether as an NPC, my image on a poster, or something of that sort.

[Ayen]

I don't care what happens if I took over, I would just make sure that there is an Easter egg involving myself in every Square made game, whether as an NPC, my image on a poster, or something of that sort.

You would become the Stan Lee of video games, eh?

[Quindiana Jones]

I would freak the smurf out because I have no experience or training or knowledge of any aspect a running a massive international business, and would most likely send the entire company into a failure cascade of biblical proportions within the first five minutes of my being there.

[Black Magic Shopkeeper]

I would freak the smurf out because I have no experience or training or knowledge of any aspect a running a massive international business, and would most likely send the entire company into a failure cascade of biblical proportions within the first five minutes of my being there.

stop being realistic you're scaring me.

I take everything back I wouldn't do anything either it's too much pressure oh god *curls up in a ball and rocks back and forth*

[Skyblade]

I would freak the smurf out because I have no experience or training or knowledge of any aspect a running a massive international business, and would most likely send the entire company into a failure cascade of biblical proportions within the first five minutes of my being there.

CEOs generally come in two types. People who are promoted up through the industry, or split off and form their own business. These people, like yourself, have little experience running the business and have to learn on the fly.


The other type is people who have business smarts, and acquire the position through corporate manipulations, mergers, etcetera. These people know the business smarts, but need to know how to apply it to the proper industry.

No one starts with all the knowledge they need, and anyone can fail. As a CEO, your job is broad control. You have the advantage of knowing what Square's fans are looking for. You have to push that agenda through. You have to convince stockholders and shareholders of the validity of the projects you want, and where their market share lies. You'll have stockholders and business investors looking at just the broad numbers of the industry (FPS games and flashy graphics are what people want, sell more!). You need to convince them of the financial merits of the path you want.

Then you need to make sure that the teams actually produce the right type of games, and then market those and make money.

Simple, really.

[Mercen-X]

Basically, you're only job is to say, "we need to put out more of this" and leave the complicated stuff to low men on the totem.