Former Square President Rips Into Square Enix: "There's No Vision For The Future"

I think Square Enix has no direction. They seem lost and are just trying anything and see if something works.

"things change; that's just how the industry works."

That's exactly what he's saying, Square Enix just isn't able to keep up.

Or more like Square having no idea how to adapt.

Or Square might have taken a wrong turn somewhere and then decided to keep going forward.

If you look at what they've put out since the merger, he's pretty damn accurate and succinct.

Sega is not doing so well either, so maybe he should put out the fire in his home and then think about the neighbor's trouble. Even though he is mostly right on his statements and S-E really has made big mistakes with their franchises.

Yeah,

"Cast the beam out of thine own eye before kvetching over the mote in thy former colleague's" or something like that...Doesn't make him objectively wrong. Just puts him in the unpleasant position of obvious and glaring hypocrisy.

When all else fails, just GIVE US OUR REMAKE OF FFVII PEOPLE HAVE WANTED FOR YEARS!

Heh they could do that and people would still hate them

We would still hate them, sure. Just a little less. When they give us a FFVIII remake too, then we can convert hate to aggravated disdain and go from there.

FF7 is so polarizing that just releasing it will probably cause backlash, whether it changed too much, didn't change anything, changed how Cloud looked, a certain materia not being in the right spot, etc etc.

"FF7 is so polarizing that just releasing it will probably cause backlash, whether it changed too much, didn't change anything, changed how Cloud looked, a certain materia not being in the right spot, etc etc. "

A great deal would have to be changed. Once you wipe off the nostalgia dust a good lens shows FF7 to be a severely faulty, even broken, game. Some of it would be simple bug fixes, such as the W Item exploit. Some of it would be to fix imbalances in the materia system (the complete lack of opportunity costs for certain materia make them overpowered, some materia are near worthless) and how they interact. Some of it would involve re-translating the script to fix faulty instructions (attack while its tail's up!) in dialogue. Some might be redesigns to fix traps in the encounter system (insanely obscure opportunities for certain blue magics that cannot be gotten any other way) and monster distribution. The list of possible improvements is very long.

Actually oblivion437, you couldn't have said that better, and you are absolutely right. My interjection was more or less meant to bring up the ever asked for wish of square enix, but what you said is what people fail to realize...the game back when we played was perfect to us but in the age of "patches" and "DLC/updates" this game would simply have no place. We all have that mental image of what cloud looks like, and facial expressions we invisioned these mouthless characters had at certain points of the game and a rehash of these impressions we built could destroy our very fond memories of the days before the internet truly revolutionized gaming (much like the fan of a book claiming the movie "ruined" it). So well said.

SE... Where do I begin...

With Wada's philosphy of milking their established IP's, and remakes, is it a wonder they're taking a hit? I agree they 'can't seem to find their way'. What happened to the PS era square? Any company that is scared to take risk on new IPs are doomed to fail. I remember they not wanting to promote TWEWY cause it was a new IP. Lo and behold, it was one of the best games they put out in years. I thought they would have learned from that, but I guess not.

FF is riding on its own coattails and has steadily gone downhill after 10. I refuse to buy any more of that franchise until they wake up.

I do believe though that somewhere in the SE offices that a finished copy of the FF7 remake is hidden behind a glass panel underscored by the words 'break in case of imminent bankruptcy'

Nail on the head.