>Square at early 2000s: Nearly went bankrupt because of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within being a huge budget movie that tried really hard to appea...

>Square at early 2000s: Nearly went bankrupt because of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within being a huge budget movie that tried really hard to appeal to the Western market and flopping really hard
>Square now: "Let's do it again!"

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Her teeth are fricking disgusting, did seriously none of these morons think to maybe fix them up in their gorillion dorrar game?

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >The Spirits Within premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 2001, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 11. It received mixed reviews, but was widely praised for its characters' realism. Due to rising costs, the film greatly exceeded its original budget toward the end of production, reaching a final cost of $137 million (equivalent to $190 million in 2021); it grossed only $85 million at the box office. The film has been called a box office bomb and is blamed for the demise of Square Pictures.

    History repeats itself

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Square is making a fat profit this year, Xbox troony.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Square is making a fat profit this year
      >Source: My ass

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    once again squeenix is getting carried by xiv troony cultists kek

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Remember that the Avengers game flopped and made Square Enix lose more money than Flopspoken.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Remember that the Avengers game flopped
      Right. I forgot that. What was the game's budget?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        google says it ranged between 170m and 190m

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          WTF! And they decided to do it again?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            They had already decided to do it again years ago
            Forshitten was the byproduct of those project athia tech demos from years ago

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            People need to stop expecting Shit Squeenix to do anything but fail.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              If it's AAA and doesn't have Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy in the title, it's going to flop. That's all they have that can sell, other than small low budget stuff like Triangle Strategy or old FF/Ogre remakes.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Kingdom Hearts
                Does this belong on the list after 3?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Since when did it flop

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                3 was the best selling game in the series

                It wasn't a flop? Then why is nobody talking about it anymore?

                That's not sarcasm.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >why is nobody talking about it anymore
                Did REmake 2 and Devil May Cry 5 flop just because nobody talks about it anymore
                Fricking moron.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                3 was the best selling game in the series

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Main FF games don't even sell so well after FF10. It's mostly the FF Online games that print money and some certain spinoffs.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                15 sold well despite being dogshit, 16 likely will as well, though it being PS5 exclusive for a year+ is gonna slow things down.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >15 sold well
                Not so well for its big budget.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                The dumb thing is we know they have two, maybe three big DQ games in the works for the last two years now, and chose to work on this.
                It's complete business suicide to work on a game like this that has nothing going for it, spend this much of your networth, and get nothing, when you have multiple franchises that are incredibly well known.

                They can't ride on funds from mobile games forever. Especially considering FFVII TFS was shut down barely a year in, and that new KH mobile game is very likely going the same way. Hell the CURRENT one has outright ended too, since they painted themselves into a corner.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It looks like the total cost of the game is closer to $170m-$190m given they only expense 70% of cost in the [quarter] plus marketing costs

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Tbf they got all debts from that paid off selling those studios to embracer so it was no big deal for them ig.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >selling those studios
            You mean shutting them down?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I will never understand those shitshows with costume morons.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And they made record profits that year despite that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        FFBE and WOTVFF are drugs that SE junkies can't live without

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      no. what avengers game??

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Why don't they just understand and accept that they have an entirely decent sized following in the west already for their very anime Jap style fantasy games and keep fricking doing that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cuz they keep fricking said Japanese games franchises with shitty localizations (like Live-A-Live), shitty remakes (like FF7 Remake), smartphone games and overpriced ports of SNES games.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They'll finish themselves off with NFT and blockchain games next year.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thank god they sold off Deus Ex franchise

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just came in here to say I'm almost done with my Hard mode playthrough of Hi-Fi Rush. It's not bad, although I've had some audio de-sync issues during cutscenes.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you had 100M and you were tasked with "appealing to the western market" what would you make? Keep in mind it has to be profitable.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      100 sequels to Horizon Zero Dawn

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >appeal to Western market
      >Has to be profitable
      I would tell them to pick one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      An Ubisoft game with character creator.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Magitech rpg with guns that shoot spells

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >100,000,000 for this shit

    There's absolutely no fricking way this pile of trash cost that much to develop when the game itself is ridiculously mundane, lacks content and feels unfinished.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Tech aside, I'd imagine hiring actors, advertising/influencer shit and all that time spent on world building (not even good world building) tanks a good chunk of budget

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Diversity is not cheap, Anon. Women don't do anything in tech except set money on fire.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Spirits Within was better than Advent Children.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Spirits Within was a good movie and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Its only 50mil in pre-covid dollars

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What in the frick were they thinking honestly? When will we finally get past this female empowerment and must be main character, especially if she is black or mutt, in gaming also? This shit is clearly cringe and not working but they keep fricking pushing it why? Is Black Rock truly responsible here for even this?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      japs look at Hollywood and think the money they generate is real instead of a money laundering scheme

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And her storylies a bit racist too

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The creators of this mess are israelites, haven't you read any older books? One of the main things communists(israelites) called for was to turn everything ugly. You think they care about money? You bet your last 2 cents they do. But they care more for destroying. You can bet your soul on that.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Damn dude this is an epic post. If I could give you a fist bump I would. Not even joking here well said I think you are right on the money with what you posted here.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They listened to the wokeshits they hired about what actual gaijins play.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Those gays are fricking lucky that FFXIV will keep them afloat despite shitting the bed this many times in a row. That said, considering the CEO got fired, this game most certainly caused real damage to the company. If only it happened sooner.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    put Kingdom Hearts on Steam and i'll buy it a 4th time

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