The complete opposite, they own shares in the company and aim to get the stock up higher so they can sell at a profit.Do we really need a second thread?
Also, don't ever listen to activist investors. Their agenda is to push a company to M&A and short the stock on the news.
for me its a big YES
Every FF game since FF2 has had a slightly different combat/progression system though.
From what I understood they put A LOT of time and money into the game engine, because they wanted to use it internally all over Square.
58M for XVI is an achievement in itself, I know is not that liked, but compared to your average western dev cycle and cost, the result was great
We don't know how much money Sony injected into the project. That may have helped tbh.
That's in huge part because the yen's value is extremely low. Just 5 years ago, this would have been $87.36M USD. The budget is still massive by Japan's standards. That it only translates to $58M USD isn't all that relevant to them.
87M still way better than whatever big budget game is developed by western devs, you can't have it both ways, unless you're doing it in China and you can pay an army of devs with pennies
It's $200 mil for Western devs in places like California or London. It should NOT be the budget in Japan where salaries and office space (outside very central Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto) are a lot lower.Those budgets for FF7R are insane. Assuming the 3rd game has a similar budget that's 600M for three games and I know that 200M is basically standard now in AAA but that doesn't make it any less crazy to me.
It shows in the end product. FFXVI was a bad Final Fantasy game.
Wtf is this cope? Hahaha expenses high- blame the LGBTQ? Didn't know the CEO was part of that community.
Wild that FF XVI only cost ~$58million USD. Game looked stunning and had great voice actors.
Top tier? Isn't it still missing FSR4 and XeSS on PC? And the lighting is just… ass.
I think Sony subsidized some of the development cost, I wonder if the $58 million includes that.
Should have just made an Agnis Philosophy game like everybody wanted.
It amazes me how companies aren't figuring out that we don't need some 100 hour journey to play your game. Meanwhile Capcom is releasing like 10 hour RE games and people are loving it.
These are made out numbers, there isn't enough public data to make a proper estimate.
By made up I meant they did put there random numbers out of their ass, because Newzoo doesn't make these specific estimations (because as I mentioned they don't have proper related data to analyze) for these things and that these companies don't share that data in their IR materials. "Third-Party Research Organization" may mean "random 4chan post" or "my cousin's personal guess".Multiple sources are cited under each relevant slide.
Also, I think you mean 'made up', 'made out' means something completely different.
I'd imagine the western involvement in Forespoken was quite the lucrative grift.
Probably how much they pay Epic to license the unreal engine. I liked Square games better when they stuck with their own engines.
This is true how would they know the dev costs for these games?
Well forspoken was not tht at first it was final fantasy 16 actually called agni philopshy. Then it seems they split the idea into 2 games probly to capitalize on this good idea and removed the final fantasy aspects because they thought final fantasy sells good by its name alone so they can make 2 games tht sell. 2 games sell better then 1 they though instead then they released 2 average games amd did not sell. It was a bad idea should have stuck with igni philopshy for ff16
Ff16 was a quick cashgrab. It showed . The real ff16 was igni philosophical and they messed it up and turned it into forspoken
The cost being so bloated is very much due to development costs of lumin engine along with the game.The luminous engine had such potential, wish they didn't shelf it.
