If you're a fan of any Western IP that got mismanaged by SE then get the fuck in here and celebrate, we're finally free from their clutches.
PRESS S TO SPIT ON SQUARE ENIX
Samuel Peterson
Jaxson Jenkins
The hilarious part is that only their Western IPs and FFXIV have been successful over the last decade but they always fucking claimed Western IPs sold poorly/"underperformed"
Mason Wright
>The hilarious part is that only their Western IPs and FFXIV have been successful over the last decade
No they havent lol. Deus Ex and Tomb Raider all bombed and Forspoken will too. Kiss my ass Westtrash
Angel Sullivan
>Western IPs
Lol.
Joshua Harris
Soon.
Hudson Butler
>Bombed
Only by Squeenix standards, Tomb Raider has sold tens of millions of copies since 2013
Oliver Peterson
*spits*
Landon Garcia
Aren't most of the VAs dead or retired?
Eli Perez
>two games sold 12+ million between them
>bombed
I hate to imagine what you'd call SE's JP output then. Even VIIR sold less than Deus HR.
William Davis
The Tomb Raider trilogy sold a staggering 35 million copies, outselling every other SE series during that decade. The only reason it was considered "underperformed" is because Square Enix went full retard and had ridiculously high sales expectations that could never be fulfilled.
Christian Collins
>deus ex
>thief
>legacy of kain
Please embracer, don't fail me now.
Josiah Bailey
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Aaron King
Press P to POOP
Nathaniel James
That shit was sold 90% off and in a bundle for $5. It's not like their jap catalogue that is still 30% off at best. Maybe 50% for really old stuff.
Andrew Thomas
Deus Ex and Tomb Raider sold money,
FF7R sold like a mockery of shit
Luis Kelly
I wish SE were better at handling their IPs and staff
Tyler Murphy
wait someone give me a QRD what happened did someone else buy out the studios from Square or something?
Dylan Carter
Great, now we'll probably get yet another reboot and Jensen's story will never be complete.
Bentley Reed
>did someone else buy out the studios from Square or something?
Yes user. All western studios (EIDOS, Crystal Dynamics) and their IP's ( Deux Ex, Thief, Tomb Raider, Gex, other 50+ titles) are now owned by Embracer, a.k.a THQ. All for the bargain bin of 300 millions.
Tyler Williams
Embracer (formerly THQ Nordic) bought all the Western studios and their IPs that were owned by Square Enix.
Isaac Moore
>ceelbrate another cutscene every 5 seconds sequel to deux
no thank you
Evan Sanders
>forgot to mention Legacy of Kain
Kain forgive me.
Sebastian Howard
SE is the single worst publisher so I’ll gladly spit on them
Julian Hall
holy fuck finally something good to come from 2022
Joshua Anderson
forspoken is japanese
Henry Mitchell
I haven't kept up with the news, did SE finally sell Deus Ex?
Robert Wood
you really have to wonder what the japs running squeenix have been doing.
they killed deus ex and sold off hitman, while funding the developments of balan wonderworld and the quiet man.
Ryder Thomas
does this mean they're free of the Marvel mines or has that stupid licensing deal come with the acquisition?
Samuel Fisher
Square Enix Europe (i.e. Eidos) was basically autonomous so I don't really have much hope for them not continuing to be retarded.
Lucas Ross
>KAIN IS WOKEIFIED
>THE TRANS TELL TALES OF HIM
>FEW KNOW THE TRUTH
>HE WAS MALE ONCE, AS WERE WE ALL
>HOWEVER, HIS CONTEPT FOR HETERONORMATIVITY DROVE HIM GROOM ME AND MY BRETHREN.
>I AM RAZIEL
>FIRST TRANSITIONED OF HIS LIEUTENANTS.
>I STOOD WITH KAIN AND MY SISTERS A THE DAWN OF THE REVOLUTION.
>I HAVE SERVED HIM AS MILLENIAL.
>OVER TIME, WE BECAME LESS MALE AND MORE....NONBINARY
>KAIN WOULD ENTER THE STAGE OF TRANSITION AND EMERGE WITH A NEW GENDER
>SOME YEARS AFTER THE MASTER, OUR TRANSITION WOULD FOLLOW.
>UNTILL I HAD THE HONOUR OF PASSING MORE THAN MY LORD
>FOR MY MICRO-AGRESSION I EARNED A NEW KIND OF REWARD...
>DIALATION
Logan Morris
That's up to debate. They probably have to deal with Disney for that one to reevaluate the licensing. There's no official information on that.
Cooper Miller
Nah bro, there's corroborated stuff that Square Enix directly interfered with their development.
>The decision to include in-game purchases such as Praxis kits and credits (to buy items in Mankind Divided) were made two weeks prior to submitting the game for approval. Eidos Montreal did not plan for microtransactions and had to add them as per Square Enix's demands at the last moment. These went live the moment the game was available for sale, after reviews were published. Neither reviewers (including Gadgets 360) nor consumers were not made aware of these elements before release. It's one of the reasons why the game is reviewing poorly with users on Steam.
>Attrition at the studio was high as well, he states. Despite high costs, Eidos Montreal's interns are the lowest paid in the city, with Sterling claiming the majority of the expenses put towards poor marketing stunts and unnecessary game modes such as Breach - the game's arcade-styled time trial. It was shoehorned in at the behest of Square Enix.
>In a previous episode, Sterling stated that Mankind Divided would be the first of trilogy. Internally it had the codename DXNG (short for Deus Ex Next Gen). One team was working on DXNG while another team was simultaneously working on DXNG2 since 2015. However to meet the game's intended February 2016 release, a large chunk of staff was moved over to Mankind Divided. The game was finally made available on August 23 this year.
Thomas Evans
Japanese boomers are a mistake. They really dont know how the world works
Noah Jones
>autonomous
Are you telling me EIDOS alone while thinking about a sequel for Deus Ex thought:
>"You know what we need? A Multiplayer First Person Shooter attached to our game. Yeah, we totally want to diverge our attention to this feature"
Remember Breach? I do, and i won't forget. That was totally SE imposing something on them.
Angel Hill
>redditposting just hours after the deal
please spare us your wojak collection
Julian Reyes
SE's unrealistic expectations have killed countless franchises with potential. Deus Ex died because Mankind Divided didn't sell millions of copies.
Christian Jackson
The irony is that it did, except later. But the initial sales got killed by SE's own bullshit.
Xavier Watson
Boomers. They don't know how current business work and they want lot of money fast, see boomers selling SNK to a muslim
Kayden Price
NuDX was not great. But it wasn't bad. The kind of game that gets boring after a solid 8 hours
James Roberts
Bit of confusion here, Square Enix Europe was Eidos Interactive and manages the western studios including Eidos Montreal, the game developer.
The decisions made around the publishing and monetization of the game very likely stemmed from the Britbong subsidiary rather than the Japs directly. It's not clear if the same people who managed this shit are staying on or if they will act like fags even without the Japanese.
Luis Gomez
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Fucking insane shit, releasing HALF of Deus Ex, paywalling the rest of the game as "episodes" behind season passes, and then acting shock and then killing the whole franchise when it doesn't work. This has to be criminal, it's like a form of vandalism.
Blake Anderson
The Japs including the SE CEO currently can't stop talking about NTFs and putting monetization everywhere, so I suspect it was their fault after all.
Angel Thompson
SE Europe answers to SE headquarters which is in Japan. Eidos will now answers directly to whoever is put by Embracer.
Adrian Clark
Isn't that the same thing that happened with nuHitman? It had slow sales at first because of the stupid episodic model and picked up once the full game was out, but by that point they had already given up on it and sold it off. And then the next two games sold great.
Really goes to show how SE is the one holding things back.
Kayden Reed
>sold it off
IO Interactive bought their freedom.
Samuel Parker
Yup
Hitman flourished heavily without Square Enix after they've become free. The same will happen to Deus Ex now that the out of touch Japanese businessmen aren't involved.
Benjamin Peterson
This is the only hope I have for now. That and Crystal Dynamics working on Tomb Raider now instead of a Marvel game
David Rogers
Remember what was a hitman game made under Square Enix? Hitman Absolution. Fuck this company man.
Thomas Perry
And with GOTG, yeah. SE fucked up the promotion, the game flopped, people eventually tried it after deep discounts, realized it's good, it started selling, but SE was already "disappointed" so off to the chopping block they go.
Adam Ramirez
>Bombed
Learn the difference between a shitty company like Square mismanaging budget and a game bombing lmao. These numbers would have made *big* profit to any other company
Jose Sanders
With GOTG they definitely just wrote it off as a sunk cost before release because Avengers flopped and they probably knew an acquisition was coming anyway. I hope the license didn't transfer though I'd hate to get more superhero stuff over Deus Ex
Thomas Wood
The light gem is getting brighter
Justin Moore
Any other studio would call the sales achieved by Deus Ex or Tomb Raider a fantastic success.
Squeenix is just so terrible with money that they view them as failiures.
Carter Rodriguez
I still cant believe they sold fucking LARA CROFT that cheap. Boomers I swear
Elijah Turner
>sleeping dogs now free from squeenix
>will still never get a sequel because it would trigger the chinks
Kayden Robinson
YOU DON'T GET IT THEY NEED TO MAKE 50 MILLIONS IN ONE WEEK I WANNA BE RICH ME WANT MONEY FAST MONEY MONEY MONEY
t. Boomer
Zachary Gray
>literally the only thing on the planet that's made it look cool to live in modern-day China
>chinks hate it because "noooo muh Hong Kong is actually China except actually not reeeeeeee"
I fucking hate the stupid fucking chinese so fucking much.
Michael Peterson
>two beautiful immersive sims sell 12+ million copies and would make the crown jewel for any other company
>DISSAPOINTING PERFORMANCE LMAO
Thinking about how SE treated DE and Eidos Montreal makes me legit mad.
Juan Young
So now we'll stop pretending those games are shit because Squenix published them and admit they're just garbage regardless?
Matthew Flores
Most multiplatform games dont get talked that much because they dont bring the free marketing bran autists bring. How many Darksiders or Sphinx threads have you seen? Any decent multiplatform game thread died fast.
Videogames are the new sport/religion. They only get attention if suddenly they become exclusive to have le I troll muh rival company
Samuel Anderson
The best thing that has ever happened to our boy now can happen to others, cheers
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Jason Bennett
Yeah, I'm aware of that, I just wish underage hooligans fucked off with this garbage.
Eli Richardson
>Yea Forums is overwhelmed with constant ER shitposting and even the Cyberpunk shitposting hasn't died down yet
>"nobody talks about fucking Darksiders so multiplat games are dead"
Joshua James
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Jace Cooper
One can only hope.
Asher Jenkins
Yeah, like 5 years after it came out.
Most companies aren't nintendo user, selling old products dirt cheap far after they've made their money for extra profit is a good business move.
Jace Brown
Are we finally going to finish my boy's story.
Hunter Davis
Dude, Dark Souls 3 took 6 years to sell 10 millions and that was their best selling game to date. You don't see BANDAI NAMCO complaining about the franchise do you? Compare it to Square Enix.
William Hall
Most likely
Embracer is known to utilize the IPs they buy. Motherfucking Destroy All Humans got a remaster from them.
Jason Russell
That part is up in the air. While Embracer's MO is usually "get studios working on every single IP notable they have", it also means sometimes forcing out remasters/remakes instead as those are cheaper to produce
Michael Hughes
>If you're a fan of any Western IP
Mason Jackson
I unironically would not mind a remake/remaster of Invisible War, that game really needs it.