What would it take to restore your faith in Square Enix?

**DMKA** · 08-05-2014, 01:02 AM

I've never lost my faith in them, and have quite enjoyed their more recent games that everyone complains about.

I'd prefer them to keep doing what they're doing. *shrugs*

**Uchu** · 08-05-2014, 02:49 AM

Originally Posted by Bolivar

Yeah, I was under the impression public opinion on SE is pretty high right now. FFXIV ARR was a resounding success, Bravely Default shifted a million units (and their corporate focus), the FFX and Tomb Raider remasters were well received, and Type-0 is releasing imminently with some HD eye candy making it worth the wait. FFXV and a new Deus Ex are on the horizon, as are more handheld games, with Chaos Rings III just announced for Vita today.

If they wanted to become my favorite publisher again, they'd just need to keep a steady output on PS4 and Vita (cross-buy titles wouldn't hurt).

Yeah, i think they have a great thing going on right now and i feel that is mostly due to the mess that was the original release of FFXIV. It seemed that after that bombed big time SE suddenly realised they need to put more effort into the FF franchise and appreciate their fans more (further proven by the success that was Bravely Default).

But its early days yet and while it's good to see positive change... a lot of what SE has said about company direction etc. has yet to be proven in the long term. But yeah, I like seeing positive news about one of my favourite game companies so I hope they keep it up.

**Wolf Kanno** · 08-05-2014, 05:34 AM

I would like to point out that there should be an asterisk next to Bravery Default, as SE had no intention of releasing it outside of Japan and it was due to Nintendo picking up the publishing rights that we ever saw it, the same thing happened with DQVI and IX, there were also rumors that SE is purposely trying to keep DQVII Japan only as well as they apparently stopped Nintendo from releasing it overseas. So I wouldn't be patting them too much on the back for releasing this great game that only got released cause other marketing departments saw an audience for them when SE's didn't.

I think how they turned XIV around is great, but I attribute that to two things, namely Yoshi-P and the extreme circumstances that XIV's failure caused which I feel allowed Yoshi-P to take several steps beyond what SE is comfortable with and luckily worked out for them. SE still announced KHIII too early despite the game not even being near full production yet and is still in the experimental R&D portion meaning the game will probably not see the light of day until the latter half of the decade which is pretty much the PR problem that Versus XIII was constantly scrutinized with, XV still has no release date, and many of their in-house productions on the horizon are either cell phone titles for the Japanese market, or for niche markets like TheaterRhythm.

On the horizon, SE has seven titles coming for worldwide release in their mobile division, most of which are slated this year, on the gaming console front, SE only has only six titles from their in-house two of which are HD remakes with one of them actually having a release date, two more are slated for this year but neither has a confirmed date and these are for the Japanese releases of which the PAL, EU, and US releases are not in the cards yet, and two of them we've known about for nearly a decade and the rest are niche titles nobody really cares about. The majority of their lineup for this and next year are from companies they've absorbed like Eidos or are being outsourced like TheaterRhythm.

Sorry to burst your bubbles folks, but I feel that SE is still in the "talking phase" of their rehabilitation and a few successes largely the result of other people's hard work and bad circumstances doesn't necessarily conclude to "SE is back on top!". I'm hoping to see them turn everything around and right now they are in a bit of good PR but I feel other factors show it is way too soon to be talking like the company doesn't have the same issues it had that plagued them throughout the last console generation.

**Quindiana Jones** · 08-05-2014, 04:41 PM

12:34:45. So close, WK.

**Carl the Llama** · 08-07-2014, 04:23 AM

I honestly haven't lost faith in Square Enix, I think its just a vocal minority that like to speak out that always judge a game and tell what they think should be done to make the game "better". I have always enjoyed the games of theirs that I have played, sure the people have their favourite but as time goes on SE will get new fans as the older generation keeps moaning. The problem is as we get older we lose faith in the world, our views become jaded as we grow more mature and we don't take the game for what it is, rather we moan as to what it should be.

Sure I would love to see a game like Final Fantasy VII, the amount of people demanding a remake of VII just goes to show we are stubborn and intractable... I have thoroughly enjoyed every final fantasy game I have laid my hands on, so why does it matter if they make whatever it is they make, either way I will still continue to buy SE products because I always have a good time playing the games. People say "I will wait for reviews" or "I don't know if I want to buy it" but you gotta understand that while people might or might not buy their products, there are thousands of people out there who, like me, will still continue to buy their games.

**Rin Heartilly** · 10-16-2014, 01:33 PM

I haven't lost faith in Square enix, I lovetheatrhythm, Crisis Core, dissidia, Bravely default...etc

I just really hope XV is good. Really good. For the fans that have waited almost a decade and the staff which have been working on it for ages.

**DanielCLFFF13** · 11-01-2014, 08:06 PM

For me, Square Enix should release the future Final Fantasy for PC alongside the console. I'm really happy when Final Fantasy XIII trilogy comes to PC, because Final Fanatsy XIII is the Final Fantasy game that brought me to Final Fantasy world and Eyes on Final Fantasy community. I just hope they plan to make the future single player Final Fantasy out for both PC and console, or well, for the rest of JRPG genre kind of game too.

But this is my opinion