Ricky D
formerly centex hogg
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That’s embarrassing as hell. I’m taking my controller and going home.
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I can't believe this happened again.
"Now if you're a younger gamer in your teens, you may not even be thinking about FF. If you are 13 years old now, you were 5 years old when the last mainline FF, FF15, came out.
Your family may not own a PS5 and you may not care. You're satisfied with Fortnite or Roblox or Minecraft with your friends on your phone or laptop. I'm not say that this is the case for everyone. But it is certainly a trend.
The old AAA franchises do not seem to be converting the younger generations that the industry was counting on for growth, and instead F2P social games on mobile are where they spend their time.
This is the reason every publisher chased live service titles; audiences clearly gravitated toward them, and profits followed in success. (It is surprising that Square Enix, which had successful F2P live service mobile titles in Japan, left the AAA live-service attempts to Eidos rather than try to build those products in Japan, but dissecting this problem would likely require an entirely different thread.)".
I was playing Fort Condor vs Chadley in Intermission this weekend and almost quit the game altogether.ff7 rebirth good as ****, but these damn minigames pissing me off a bit.
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I just bought AEW for $16.
Oh well.
Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets
Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets | Game World Observer
Former Square Enix executive Jacob Navok has shared his thoughts on less-than-expected sales of the latest Final Fantasy games. He also tried to explain why people mistakenly think that the Japanese publisher is simply setting unrealistic goals for its products.gameworldobserver.com
TLDR
- The projected AAA gaming audience growth in the mid 2010s (pre-Fortnite era) used for game budgeting didn't quite materialize as expected. Gaming audience did grow, but they pretty much all went to live service games like Fortnite and Genshin Impact. The fact that all the audience growth went to live service games means that the main budgeting premise for pre-Fortnite games got invalidated.
- AAA games don't just have to compete with other AAA games, they have to compete against every single active F2P live service game in existence right now. This means that unless you have a mega-hit (which takes some element of luck), it's hard to pull people away from just playing Fortnite or Genshin.
- From an investor standpoint, investing in AAA games makes 0 sense unless the returns can at least beat the S&P 500.
a stand out quote:
With the final shape in a week and the Elden Ring dlc at the end of the month, these games mean nothing to me.Sony really doing us all a favor. Great month to explore other options; take up woodworking or something.
You going into the DLC on NG or +? What RL you atWith the final shape in a week and the Elden Ring dlc at the end of the month, these games mean nothing to me.