@texasgoldrush:
However, Square Enix still owns the IP/publishing rights to the LIS franchise. In other words, they have the same right to cancel the LIS game in development as they have to cancel a DQ manga spin-off.
Except that an estimated sales of more than 2M in the first month or so is a pretty solid performance, and FF7Rebirth could already be profitable enough for the company. Never mind that it was made cost-effectively in less than half the development time of other recent FF titles, including FF7Remake.
Or maybe the investors are right and you are wrong. At the very least, the FF14 expansion alone, like previous expansions, is expected to be far more profitable in the long run than "major releases" like Hell Diver II or Dragon's Dogma 2.
Yeah, they have publishing rights and they are killing the franchise because they do not know how to handle it. They have already drive Don't Nod from the franchise and now they are competing against the franchise they created.
That is simply not solid for a Final Fantasy game, it is atrocious. The series is losing it's audience and it shows. That is not good.
Or that investors can be wrong as they often are. The next report could be brutal.
SquareEnix needs to be making major changes to their business, not just cut and refocus games. Their games simply put, are not gaining audience.
Let's be real, Don't Nod were nobodies before Square Enix discovered them. Without Square Enix, they'd probably end up irrelevant just like Eidos after Square Enix sold them off... Also, how can they be "competing against" their own franchise?
Her point still stands that Rebirth is profitable, regardless of whether it under-performed.
Investors wouldn't just waste money investing shares in a company they didn't have confidence in.
But those Square Enix games include Dragon Quest and Life is Strange, two IPs that you yourself are a fan of. If Square Enix falls, two of your favourite IPs fall along with them. Wishing for their downfall is like shooting yourself in the foot.
Except Square does not own Dragon Quest, Horii does. And Life is Strange could easily be sold, and it should. And really if SquareEnix collapses, others would get the franchises anyway. And Don't Nod is releasing a successor franchise, Lost Records, that could compete with Life is Strange.
Profitable, but not profitable enough.
And many times, investors are overconfident and they pay for it. They overinflated CDPR stock for example.
When Square Enix sold off Eidos to Embracer, I'm sure you must've been celebrating... Yet that backfired. Embracer mismanaged Eidos, leading to the collapse of Eidos and now its franchises are dead in the water.
Yet SquareEnix helped lead to Deus Ex's downfall. It wasn't just Embracer.
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