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Square Enix To Slim Down Its Gaming Lineup To Ensure Higher Quality
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/01/square-enix-to-slim-down-its-gaming-lineup-to-ensure-higher-quality
Cutting the fat
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/01/square-enix-to-slim-down-its-gaming-lineup-to-ensure-higher-quality
Cutting the fat
They released like 4 RPGs last year.
I think the issue isn't quality but also marketing and refusing to put anything on sale.
I could see the trouble with a single game being that a game breaking bug discovered in November could bankrupt the company by missing Christmas release, or releasing a broken product.
A company with a few other games in the pipeline has a chance to advertise and release one of the others, which might be missing a planned level, but not actually be broken.
What I really wish is for some way for game developers to gain a cut of the secondary market* so that they weren't so financially dependent on a treadmill of output. Developers should have a vested interest to continue to support and work on their games for as long as there's an active fanbase. Access to the secondary market (i.e. a cut of used game sales) would enable that while also supporting consumer ownership rights. The fact that I have hundreds of dollars (more? no idea) of illiquid assets in the form of digital-only games is an undue burden on the consumer. /rant
*not through expensive DLCs, subscriptions, or the way Skyrim did it, preferably
I doubt Square Enix is at risk of bankruptcy. If Larian can do it, Square Enix won't have issues.