I honestly don't understand what the fuck is wrong with this company.
Everyone else sees the writing in the wall: traditional videogames are dying and mobile is the future. Behemoths of the industry like Bethesda, Blizzard and Square Enix are already migrating to the mobile ecosystem. Meanwhile Cygames is doing the opposite: instead of strengthening their position in the mobile market or reinvesting their profit on non-videogame related ventures (like gambling), they're wasting millions on making a traditional JRPG and a traditional fighting game.
It's like they're going backwards. Why are their stockholders okay with this?
Mobile games market is oversaturated. To make any sort of cash there you need a miracle. And since they know this firsthand, they are doing anything in their power to move to PC / consoles where users are used to pay 60$ per game and then another 60$ in microtransactions.
Andrew Garcia
Second post best post, Cygames knows not to put all their eggs into one basket and the mobile market is reaching a point where you either have to be an already existing IP or a fucking miracle to make it in the mobile market and even then its not a shoe in because that new Doctor Mario game did completely shit. Pokemon Masters is coming out and people think its going to make gangbusters but I'm on the opposite side of the fence thinking that people are not only burnt out and already have mobile games to play, when you search on the store Pokemon Go is going to come up first, Pokemon Masters unintentionally competes with that. A bit of a sidetrack but just proving my point that mobile game industry is super fickle and Cygames are at the very least willing to branch out.
Kevin Perez
Diversifying your business and expanding your playerbase makes sense though
Jaxson Nelson
Cygames is so fucking rich, they are struggling to spend their money. They have investments in a myriad of projects, many non-vidya related. They just do it to blow money.
I know because they tried to acquire the company I’m working for and we talked to them a bunch.
Cooper Fisher
What company desu
David Young
It was originally a company of otakus, why wouldn't they just make what they want to play?
Xavier Hill
>I honestly don't understand what the fuck is wrong with this company.
Because you dont know shit about economy; business or marketing, sweetie. Now go away and let us adults take care of our stuff. Have a good day!
William Flores
a small propane and propane accessory outlet in texas
Brayden Jackson
Based Cygames not falling for the mobile meme and diversifying business to fund their passion projects.
David Jackson
>Granblue Fantasy >Idolmaster Cinderella Girls >Idolmaster Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage >Shadowverse >Princess Connect Cygames already got their foot really fucking deep into the mobile market. They are making insane amounts of money from it already. Two of their upcoming games ties into Granblue Fantasy so those games are not too much of a risk, if anything it might just draw even more people into the mobile game.
>It's a "Yea Forums doesn't understand the importance of diversifying revenue streams" episode Besides, Platinum was probably pretty cheap to contract for Re:Link, and shacking up with ArcSys lets them move into the eSports space in the genre most likely to be filled with the weebs that would like their gacha. The fact that they're beating Riot to the punch at putting out a fighting game is a win for them, even if Riot's fighter will probably do better.
>Funding ZoE2 when they have no reason to They don't need you to understand. They do it because they can and they probably doing it out of love rather then giving a fuck about money because they are literally swimming with them gacha money.
Colton Watson
>writing in the wall it's writing ON the wall
Jacob Edwards
they also are doing a potential Zone of the enders 3. (they were the one who did the remaster of 2 last year.)
Hunter Anderson
Had no clue they did that. Imagine having so much gacha cash that you just decide to throw some of it at another company to remake a game you liked. I heard good things about MARS too.
Samuel Miller
>Everyone else sees the writing in the wall: traditional videogames are dying and mobile is the future Bait or just a really stupid user?
Considering he doesn't understand that a company with a large foothold in one market moving into another related market with the profits from it is a good thing for that company, probably just really stupid.
Landon Rogers
This. It's actually pretty well known that the head honchos do what they want and the money earned from mobile games goes towards this means.
Logan Jenkins
>or reinvesting their profit on non-videogame related ventures (like gambling) Except they are
Chase Diaz
Yeah they are based if you ask me. Basically doing the reverse of what's popular so when that market bubble burst everyone will know that they were right all along
John Johnson
Based OP doesn't even know what he's talking about. Here's a bump for your idiocy.
Nicholas Miller
Cygames was a company where the founders established it with intent to make traditional games, but they had no money so they made gacha. The gacha took off and now they are using it's money to make the games they wanted.
Mason Ramirez
>vidya equivalent of a girl who strips to pay for her college degree Based.
Austin Phillips
>sponsoring literally a band of thieves
Cameron Hill
When you purposefully leave a market due being shortsighted, someone else will take that market. And if for some reason the market you went to burn to the ground due for example the government making it effectively illegal, you get fucked for not having a diversified portfolio.
Why you think capcom is getting a foot back into the "real games" thing?
>they're wasting millions on making a traditional JRPG and a traditional fighting game. >wasting Why the fuck don't you understand that this is for advertisement purposes so people will say things just like the stuff you're saying in this thread? Cygames is trying to exert control over the entire industry. They're not going backwards, they want to be taken seriously by the consumer.
They're also probably not losing money on either considering that's not how licensing deals fucking work.
There's no actual source for this, it's just something people say. It doesn't make any sense either since you don't just wake up one morning and have a gacha game.
Gavin Sullivan
Actually recently its been doing really well, just had a slow start but tis better to have slow growth then a huge boon only to slowly drop.
Lucas Long
Just started playing it, it doesn't seem to be dead with all the new events and features, and I always find people to play with
