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[SolVanderlyn]

 

[LoserMakesGood]

Shinra suffering from Cloud Strife.

Brilliant

 

[Brave]

The Cloud failed us again.

 

[Kyoufu]

What does that mean for FFXIII on mobile? I NEED TO KNOW!

That's G-Cluster Global, not Shinra.

 

[threelights]

That's not the streaming service guys, that's the cloud stuff. They never released anything, just had some tech demos...

It has nothing to do with FFXIII on mobile...

 

[Kagari]

Their other cloud streaming thing is also dead, DiveIn or whatever it was called.

 

[mieumieu]

Their other cloud streaming thing is also dead, DiveIn or whatever it was called.

but if divein is dead, how did they recently released the last remnant on mobile cloud... im not questioning the news just baffled about it.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

This company are sick.

 

[Kyoufu]

but if divein is dead, how did they recently released the last remnant on mobile cloud... im not questioning the news just baffled about it.

That's G-Cluster Global, not Shinra.

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Square-Enix uses G-Cluster Global for their streaming needs.

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

Their other cloud streaming thing is also dead, DiveIn or whatever it was called.

Seems like they're consolidating and trying to streamline operations? Hopefully they don't ditch Collective. That's a really great concept, and (last I checked) had great community support.

 

[Oersted]

This reminds me of Cellius.
Probably a dead-end subsidiary specifically setup to run out the remaining days of Wada's career.

You won. Around 1 1/2 years ago.

 

[mattp]

hope milky is alright

 

[ElFly]

Good riddance for a dumb technology.

Sorry for the people who lost their jobs tho.

 

[Arthea]

AVALANCHE wins yet again

I can't believe nobody posted it before me

 

[wmlk]

FFVII Remake gets announced.

Bombing Mission trailer less than a month ago.

Coincidence? I think not.

 

[_Ryo_]

I'm actually relieved about this tbqh. The thought of cloud only online gaming with no offline is horrifying to me, and this probably suggests that FFVIIR won't be an always online open world thing.

 

[anaron]

Wada the worst

 

[wmlk]

I guess Wada wasn't very fortunate.

 

[Alvarez]

The rumors of my dissolution are--*kshrrr*--greatly exaggerated.

Anyone up for a game of Sphere Break??

 

[Compsiox]

What about Human Heads project?

 

[crinale]

Wada mess.

I loled.

 

[KoopaTheCasual]

I'm actually relieved about this tbqh. The thought of cloud only online gaming with no offline is horrifying to me, and this probably suggests that FFVIIR won't be an always online open world thing.

I mean... there was absolutely nothing to suggest that in the first place.

 

[Xenus]

I loled.

What if it was all just a shell company to push off Wada then kill the company and thus fire him...

 

[Vibranium]

What will Wada do next? Join Nintendo? (lol no)

 

[hamchan]

Honestly didn't seem worth it just to sell mobile games. Cloud streaming will happen eventually but I think it's better to leave it up to Sony, Microsoft and Valve to make those investments.

 

[water_wendi]

Shinra suffering from Cloud Strife.

Wonderful.

 

[GoldandBlue]

It seemed like a bad idea. FF13 looked awful on it.

 

[Rising_Hei]

If you hate someone, hope for Wada to become their CEO, lol

 

[Mindman]

Well, $#%&!

Lmao

 

[Inuhanyou]

Glad to hear it.

From the beginning of its formation, i had no idea what the hell Wada was doing heading up such a weird pet project like that. "Distributing calculations on the cloud"? Why the hell would that make any sense over a local solution which is going to be 100% more effective all the time?

No wonder he is no longer Prez, but after the 7th gen under his leadership, that goes without saying.

 

[Hibiki Kurosawa]

Impressive...

 

[Namikaze]

Lol, there was no way this wasn't gonna happen. It was just a matter of time.

 

[Ravidrath]

You'd think after wasting millions on Crystal Tools and Luminous, Square would've finally stopped trying to roll their own tech.

But, nope - they had to do it again, and this time it's online tech! Something they have almost zero experience with!

And just like when they swallowed their pride and put their games on Unreal, they'll do the same with Amazon.

 

[udivision]

You'd think after wasting millions on Crystal Tools and Luminous, Square would've finally stopped trying to roll their own tech.

But, nope - they had to do it again, and this time it's online tech! Something they have almost zero experience with!

And just like when they swallowed their pride and put their games on Unreal, they'll do the same with Amazon.

They should play it safe and release a 200 million dollar movie and go after that sweet Star Wars money.

 

[Johndoey]

They should play it safe and release a 200 million dollar movie and go after that sweet Star Wars money.

You think they wouldn't if they could?

 

[duckroll]

You'd think after wasting millions on Crystal Tools and Luminous, Square would've finally stopped trying to roll their own tech.

But, nope - they had to do it again, and this time it's online tech! Something they have almost zero experience with!

And just like when they swallowed their pride and put their games on Unreal, they'll do the same with Amazon.

Hey man that's not true. They have tons of experience with the amazing online platform known as PlayOnline. Most people like to talk about Crystal Tools or Luminous, but the truth is, the crazy chase for their own branded little thing started from Sakaguchi's era. I still remember that conference where they announced FFIX, X, XI or something at the same time, and was pushing how PlayOnline would be this amazing online portal which all their games from PS2 onwards would connect to, and they showed off early FFX concept ideas of how it would use PlayOnline in the menus.

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Lol.

 

[xzeldax3]

I would have loved to work there just to say I worked for Shinra.

 

[Brad Grenz]

Shinra was always a crazy solution in search of a problem no one actually had. Not surprised, except that it lasted as long as it did.

 

[Xenus]

Hey man that's not true. They have tons of experience with the amazing online platform known as PlayOnline. Most people like to talk about Crystal Tools or Luminous, but the truth is, the crazy chase for their own branded little thing started from Sakaguchi's era. I still remember that conference where they announced FFIX, X, XI or something at the same time, and was pushing how PlayOnline would be this amazing online portal which all their games from PS2 onwards would connect to, and they showed off early FFX concept ideas of how it would use PlayOnline in the menus.

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Lol.

And how Tidus had black hair.....

 

[Nirolak]

Hey man that's not true. They have tons of experience with the amazing online platform known as PlayOnline. Most people like to talk about Crystal Tools or Luminous, but the truth is, the crazy chase for their own branded little thing started from Sakaguchi's era. I still remember that conference where they announced FFIX, X, XI or something at the same time, and was pushing how PlayOnline would be this amazing online portal which all their games from PS2 onwards would connect to, and they showed off early FFX concept ideas of how it would use PlayOnline in the menus.

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Lol.

Don't worry, between these two they had highly successful services like Core Online and Dive-In.

 

[illmatic22]

Barret won. No more pizza.

 

[Anuson.Phan]

The cloud was a big tag line in the beginning of this Gen then it slowing disappeared. Wonder what happened.

 

[quesalupa]

Lifestream saved.

 

[DangerMouse]

https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/684543072701517824

Well that was fast.

Beat everyone (and me) to it LOL

It didn't even get to make it to the first response.

 

[TheSeks]

Edit: Press release - http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/20160106_01en.pdf

STI, as a cloud platform operator, has been trying to raise funds necessary for further business operations from third party investors. However, STI has found no prospective investors at this point, and therefore has to discontinue its business.

Basically, if I'm reading right, Square stopped giving them money when it was clear there was no investor wanting to get on cloud-based streaming/gaming. Makes sense, that tech still is not ready for prime-time and I don't blame investors for being gun-shy on that.

The cloud was a big tag line in the beginning of this Gen then it slowing disappeared. Wonder what happened.

Buzzword that's been misused in some cases. In others things that aren't ready for the times, and others where they're already here.

 

[HappehLemons]

Glad these services aren't taking off to be honest. Can't get behind this technology and I feel like the wasted resources that were put into this and on PS4s PS3 game streaming are the stopping better more in demand features/products from coming out.

 

[Wagram]

Looking at the announcement article is pretty great.



The future is now!

Wada seen a lot of things (mostly imaginary), but the new CEO likes actual revenue streams.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Wada seen a lot of things (mostly imaginary), but the new CEO likes actual revenue streams.

Matsuda is one of the the best dudes.

 

[duckroll]

Don't worry, between these two they had highly successful services like Core Online and Dive-In.

I don't either of those were internal tech of any sort though, just stupid branding concepts, like EXTREME EDGES. Lol.

 

[Baleoce]

Shinra Technologies (Square Enix cloud-based company) has dissipated. *