What the fuck happened?

>>716533093 (OP)
hired too many women

ruined their cashcow because they wanted to make a mediocre action game and spent 7 years working on a ps1 game port

>>716533093 (OP)
The radical transparency they spoke with during the 1.0 era made everyone (likely including themselves) think they were free from Square Enix corporate culture. Yoshi-P being allowed to openly discuss their internal failures was unprecedented, and now that they've put a collar back on him, people can't help but see him as having lost touch. The reality is that we probably won't ever know whether he has or not, at least not until he inevitably leaves the company in disgrace, just like Sakaguchi and Matsuno before him. With the expansion of the divisions into business units, their scope is dramatically expanded with the funding to match. With more funding comes more oversight, and with more oversight comes more meddling. The classic Square Enix ambition and greed is coming to the forefront.

>Koji stops working on the game and they put a retarded tranny in charge
>Ichikawa does too well as a woman so her superior blackballed her and replaced her with a retard as a power flex
>YoshiP doesn't care anymore at all

>>716533225
and those women then hired a man dressed like a woman to play the first female Hrothgar.

>>716533093 (OP)
They've gotten SLOPPEH

>>716533237
>spent 7 years working on a ps1 game port
wat

>>716533093 (OP)
Nothing, they've been doing the same thing for years. People just now care because WoW was bad so WoW babbies came over and now that they saw they were doing the same thing by the 2nd expansion they got to play they started complaining.

The only boundries they ever pushed were attempts at seeing how pissed the playerbase gets with releasing even less shit every expac/patch.

>>716533093 (OP)
Naoki Yoshida killed Final Fantasy XIV and XVI by removing RPG features from those games to cut costs. What you see is the result of keeping of completely misunderstanding RPGs from a design standpoint.
His decision to streamline the RPG out of already boring games will cost him more than just making good RPGs in the first place.

>>716533093 (OP)
they're basically creatively bankrupt

>>716536598
They're responsible for the upcoming FF Tactics Remaster.

>>716533093 (OP)
they were never good, thats why they are CBU THREE and not 1.

>>716533093 (OP)
Their games were never good.

Without the story, you're left with vasaline smear spell effects, ground fire dodging 'combat', shit tier world design with linear NPC larp 'quests' and repetitive as fuck watered down WOW style dungeon farm 'end game'

Yoshi-P is a fucking hack and so is everyone at CBU3, one only has to look at their other game FFXVI, which was a colossal fuckup in every way except the music, how you get the guy who does DMC combat to make your combat system and you still manage to fuck it up and make it into "spam eikon spells on cooldown", while also stripping out every single RPG mechanic possible, like how the flying fuck do you suck at making action RPG combat when squeenix already had fucking Kingdom Hearts 2 on the fucking PS2 and FF7R right next door

>>716533093 (OP)
They opened and an account on Bluesky.

RPGs, especially JRPGs are games about numbers, stats specifically.

While some JRPGs are more simplistic than others, the stats still matter, and good JRPGs are about creating puzzles built around stats and abilities to mitigate or negate weaknesses while exploiting strengths.

This doesn't happen in Yoshi-P's games. Because FFXIV is a basic bitch WOW clone, it designs its game around skill spam rotations, for example a black mage you just use your CDs and spam fire or ice or w/e is currently meta, it doesn't matter that you're fighting a bomb or ice flan, you just spam the meta ability because the game doesn't care about elements, it just cares about how big your item level on all your stat sticks are to calculate generic damage, being a basic bitch WOW clone every job has to fulfill the dogshit trinity of MMO class design, where the only differences between the classes is at best a different rotation, or at worse horrible imbalance because there are no niches to exploit, no boss puzzles to solve, just raw gear checks, so either every tank is effectively the same, or one tank has an edge over the others and you're a retard for playing anything other than the meta tank, instead of designing a game where every job gets to shine in their own way, and you can just swap jobs and gear as needed for different encounters.

And FFXVI you're litterally a fire esper who can abosrb other espers, your basic abilities are all fire based, so when you run into a bomb and it doesn't automatically blow up when you hit it with fira, or the fact you have phoenix abilities that don't heal, don't auto-life, and don't do extra damage to undead when you already have ifrit abilities that are also all fire based shows just how creatively bankcrupt they are