The major publisher clearly has money to spend on staff
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
SE needs to go all in optimization. Broken PC ports won't help its case, especially with big releases like mainline Final Fantasy
It's actually simple. What doesn't inspire confidence is Square allocating their budgets on the wrong projects such as Forspoken, Avengers, Babylons Fall and Foamstars.
Square has always been multiplatform since PS3/360 days which 80 % of their games are. People kick up a fuss over PS exclusivity but not Nintendo which has more exclusive projects console exclusive from Square.
FF16 has done ok but not enough to fix the blunders that the past mistakes Square has made with some of their projects. FF7 Rebirth is unclear we'll see a PC release for sure so it's hard to say so far not as good as they would of liked.
Then again unrealistic expectations. If it weren't for Sony these games would at least had another 2 years development time. So some people need to be realistic in that regard.
Square Enix just really need to revise its expectations. Maybe consider a change in strategy on dev end as well. Multiplat will help for sure but only good games that are marketed well will sell
Arrowhead Game Studios CEO Johan Pilestedt explains how the studio name comes from a name translation, plus the background on the game title “Helldivers.”
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Why on Earth do executives get paid so much and get such ridiculous bonuses? Executives even get severance pay when they are fired.
If that means more (good) games, what's the problem? It's a private company, they pay what they want for whoever they want. Anything Activision related now is a reason to scream "WITCH! WITCH!"
Chances are he won't do any miracles, though.
The AAA industry is crashing right before our eyes.
Unless you started and own your own company there is no job on earth that justifies paying executives excessive salaries.
This is disgusting.. it’s always the people that don’t do shit that get paid so damn well, while the ones that actually work get the crumbs..
Just like my damn job.. got a gm that gets paid six figures with another six figure bonus... that’s not all he gets the ass hole came in knowing nothing about our field of work, nothing at all and gets a company vehicle company gas and to top it all off they pay his fvcking rent cause he moved from another state..
Just disgusting