Despite receiving highly positive reviews, it “undershot” publisher Square Enix’s sales expectations at launch, according to president Yosuke Matsuda.
Senior narrative director Mary DeMarle told Eurogamer: “For me, it’s all about creating the game. What I love right now is that people, especially with Game Pass, are playing it and they’re sharing the experience.
“We make games to touch people, we make games to hit an audience. And it’s great that it’s finding its audience, and it’s great that it keeps going forward.”
Guardians of the Galaxy senior creative director Jean-Francois Dugas also told the site: “It’s like anything. We always want to sell trillions but it’s not always necessarily as easy as that.”
He added: “But is it a great ride? And is it something this year or last year that you played that is unlike everything else? And is it worth spending your time on? I honestly think it is, from a game standpoint.
“I have no regrets. We did everything we could but that’s the reality of the market… And let’s not forget it’s a new IP. Even though we say all ‘Guardians [of the Galaxy] are known’, it’s still a new IP [in the video game market]. It could be a lot of people don’t even know that the game is out yet, or they’re not sure exactly what it is.”
Guardians only bombed because they advertised it horribly.
Jordan Kelly
>finding its audience >slow start >it's all about creating >we make games to touch people The absolute state of corporate mental gymnastics. >I have no regrets Lmao
Nicholas Young
It was lame and generic
Zachary Jackson
Except, uh.. Guardians didn’t bomb? It *literally won Best Narrative at the Game Awards*. Bomb? W H A T?
Jaxon Morgan
Square Enix Bros... Why do our games keep underperforming?
Ian Williams
But it was advertised in E3?
Logan Baker
Every game bombs according to SE
Lincoln Bennett
I hate SE so much it's unreal. I'm just glad I'm not Japanese or I'd hate them more.
Jayden Sanchez
I think it was after Marvel's Avengers that all of their games not released on Nintendo started bombing horribly. Did FFSoP sell even 1 million copies?
Ryan Phillips
see
Robert Richardson
>squeer enigs will die in your lifetime Good riddance.
Camden Williams
Good game markets itself. Obviously they forgot to make a good game.
Liam Mitchell
Cheap good games market themselves Full price games move numbers based on hype/marketing
Ethan Morris
Se and fromsoft are the only worthwile jap corps anyway, why bother with the rest
Caleb Robinson
>company that published Shartspoken >worthwhile oh im laffin
Samuel Martinez
>Game Awards It's a commercial, the awards don't mean anything or have any prestige
Thomas Morales
>Balan >Chocobo GP >Avengers >Babylon's Fail >Guardians of the Galaxy what's next?
>OHHHH MY GOOODDDDD >LE PUPPERINO IS DANCING!!!! >SOUL OVERLOAAADDEDDD!!! Fucking zoomer.
Juan Perez
It founds its audience because of gamepass most people didn't want to play it because of how fucking shit avengers was and didn't want to waste their money
Jackson Thomas
Dude relax, its just a gif. Its not even in the game itself.
Christopher Morgan
lol ff7rp2 will be a straight to gamepass release
Chase Russell
Just make Deus Ex please
Oliver Young
Would have probably done better if it wasn't a marvel game. There's like 3000 marvel things every year, plus advertising sucked to the point most people thought it was just a "the movie the game" game which sells poorly since they are usually a shitty cash grabs.
Thomas Brown
There was. GOTG game?
Wyatt Morris
The game has an entire album created for the game that's the definition of sovl faggot. When the devs actually give a shit and go above and beyond of what's expected of them little details that enhance the experience
All I remember of this game is having to sit through 20 minutes of painfully unfunny and tryhard dialogue during the E3 footage, I can't think of a single reason why I should even give this capeshit game a chance
Hunter Wood
I fucking hate the MCU GOTG so much, it's unreal. They were a team of dry misfits and now they're wacky reddit horseshit with muh cool retro songs. Fuck this entire franchise. Peter died in the Cancerverse.
Kevin Scott
You're right. The Marvels Avengers stink latched on to this one and it still can't remove the smell of it even this long after release.
Most likely they will be absorbed by the growing Microsoft gaming behemoth. It's already been heavily rumored MS are interested in at least taking Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal off Square Enix's hands. If MS bought the whole company I don't think Yea Forums would survive the chaos
Brody Hughes
can i have my new deus ex now?
Gavin Walker
I hope we get a sequel honestly.
Was a great game. One of the only games to genuinely make me lol irl fr
FF14 is literally the one game propping them up. Creative Business Unit III ,so far, isn't total shit.
Levi Scott
>Creative Business Unit III ,so far, isn't total shit. yeah, there's a reason they're the only CBU that puts their name in their trailers
Kevin White
>FF14 is literally the one game propping them up if you ignore gacha
Leo Jackson
>Balan Wonderland >Babylon's Fall >Stranger of Paradise >Forwoken about to be another massive bomb Yes, it's all the evil westerner's fault, those j*ps never release horrible dogshit that nobody buys
Lincoln Lopez
Stranger of Paradise was good
Jackson Mitchell
sorry, correction: w*stern devs and attempts to appeal to w*sterners
Anthony Moore
those games are a fraction of the budget of shit like avengers, though.
Hunter Green
Forspoken is pretty high budget though I'm also not entirely convinced it's gonna bomb, seems like they're gonna market it a lot and there are so few worthwhile PS5 games it might have a chance I'll still only pirate it at best, since the talentless hacks that made XV are involved I don't expect anything
I'm still baffled heads didn't roll for the failure of Marvel's Avengers. That game should been THE money maker for Square Enix and Marvel now it's just a joke people bring up every now and then. They botched such a big license
