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BlackJackCat posted...

Unless somehow Square Enix's investors are collectively trying to do the least intuitive thing possible over and over until they go bankrupt, I don't think they are in in particular danger of going under.

Bear in mind that this is a company that sold off several major, successful IP's and studios to fund further investment into NFT's and other crypto applications in the middle of last year, by which point the NFT bubble had obviously burst. Their HD games division also turned a loss last year, purely because Avengers was such a train wreck, meaning they would have been profitable had they stuck to what they were good at instead of going balls deep chasing the live service bandwagon. Common sense may be beyond them.

BigOlePappy posted...

Why isn't Square as consistent as other companies? I have no idea, but it seems like they take really solid, full-proof ideas, and then they tinker with them until they ruin it.

Mostly, they've got a lot of development talent on board that knows what they're doing with established IP's and good ideas, but they've got an executive suite that understands pretty much nothing about the products they make and insists on cramming whatever get-rich-quick schemes they can think of into them regardless of how suitable it is. It's a lot of really incompetent executive meddling, propped up by some genuinely talented staff.