What happened to Square?
It can't be their merger with Enix. Pre merger Enix had amazing games.
What happened to Square?
Elijah Gomez
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Ethan Edwards
>Sakaguchi left
>Takahashi left
>The Chrono guy left
>the company was putting out games that made normies drop their jaws from the EBIN CGI so they cluttered their games with an unnecessary focus on graphics so they have been suffering from long dev times, unfinished hallway sims ever since
>put their only competent director and writer on an MMO (to be fair the writer only proved herself as competent last year)
>through circumstance and 2000s edgy Naruto weebs propping him up, one of the company clowns, Nomura, aquired a reputation as a genius rivaling Kojima or Taro or Kamiya when even Kojima is 3 levels above him
>FFXIV 1.0
Aiden Cook
They haven't made anything good since and including XIII
Tyler Cox
square was on the verge of going bankrupt and despite Yamaguichi being rude about people who play RPG's, square made a desperate plee to put Crystal Chronicles on the Gamecube.
Brayden Powell
The stuff that caused them to become "bad" was going on before the merger. Mostly management (Wada) treating the talented developers like crap and killing many IPs to put money into ever increasing Final Fantasy projects. Series like Mana, SaGa, Chrono, Xeno and so on were getting the shaft. And the talented people who worked on those were told to either jump on the Final Fantasyband wagon or leave. Half of them left.
Despite having some of the best selling and most popular games on the market, they were still in debt. So they merged with Enix who absorbed their bad debt. Then the sole owner of Enix retired and left the company in the hands of Wada...the guy who ran them into the ground. And surprise surprise, the next decade, SquareEnix started to have a lot of the same problems. IPs were gutted to put more money and manpower into bigger and bigger Final Fantasy projects. And all of them (XIII, XIV and XV) all had massive problems.
Wada finally got kicked out around 2015. And notice that since he left, they've started rebooting old IPs and making a lot of new ones.
Liam Perez
Most of their talent left years ago. Sakaguchi left with people and made mistwalker, and Takashi left with people and made monolith.
Landon Wood
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Not joking. That movie almost bankrupted the company. A lot of the talent bailed out when they thought the ship was going to sink.
The same thing happened again when they thought it would be a good idea to outsource FFXIV development to China and the first version of XIV tanked. Talent left, never came back even though Square again recovered.
Zachary Martinez
But none of their talent had success after leaving Square.
Jordan Sullivan
In Sakaguchi's case that's because of a platform mismatch with his audience (no jrpg sold well on xbox) and zero marketing.
Ethan Ross
Dumping all of their resources into Final Fantasy and putting the people in the company with the least amount of talent and competence in charge of all of them so they always end up being embarrassing bombs. The company still makes good games but they're always extremely low budget with absolutely no advertising. Final Fantasy killed the company.