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Noite_Etion, do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN
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The company said it wants to be “more selective and focused in the allocation of development resources”, and as a result of the “close examination”

Hate company gibberish like this. We plan to spend money differently… Somehow, but were planning!

Additionally Square needs to stop releasing games exclusively to a single platform, no wonder Rebirth sales haven’t been released as many (including myself) are waiting for the PC release.

Mainly waiting for PC release so I can use mods to shut Chadley up, and turn off all the anime grunting.

meleecrits, do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN
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I would happily buy both Rebirth and XVI, but I’m not buying a $500 console to play two games.

Console exclusivity only benefits the console maker.

ampersandrew,
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And I think they’re likely done taking those deals after this.

Grangle1,

Very few third-party games remain exclusive to one platform forever, so in those cases I’m usually content to just wait it out until the exclusivity deal is over then pick the game up on a platform I own. Sometimes the wait can be pretty long but I really don’t have much of a sense of FOMO most of the time.

Noite_Etion,
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Very few third-party games remain exclusive to one platform forever.

Yes. But when they stay exclusive it’s the worst.

Still waiting for Bloodborne to be available on PC; most likely will be waiting until I can emulate it.

Stovetop,

The PC version of XVI is being actively worked on, Rebirth not long to follow I’d imagine, given that they released less than a year apart.

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

So basically they shut down their games actively being developed or games like NieR Reincarnation (I am legitimately upset they did not patch it to work offline, that was a great game that died yesterday) just so they could claim a loss. This is likely for tax reasons, if I had to guess.

philycheeze,

From the looks of things, Warner Bros was just the beginning of this practice.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Nah, companies have been doing similar practices for ages. Its just they’re being more public about it now.

kbin_space_program,

Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.

Starkstruck,

I still don’t understand how even with a tax write off they make more money than if they actually sold the damn thing.

CosmicCleric, (edited ) do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN
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From the article…

This is the result of a change in approach to Square Enix’s development of what it calls HD video games (PC and console, as opposed to mobile and MMO). In its note, the company said it wants to be “more selective and focused in the allocation of development resources”, and as a result of the “close examination” of its development pipeline with this in mind, is taking the multi-million dollar loss.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

CopernicusQwark, do games w Hades 2 Technical Test to Wind Down Today, Steam Early Access Release Date ‘Relatively Soon’ After

That was very quick! I expected the technical test to go on much longer than that!

Now it’ll be the dilemma of “do I buy it in early access knowing that it’ll be only a fraction of the content, or do I wait for 1.0?”

bungle_in_the_jungle,

You could buy it early access to give them the support (and get it cheaper) but wait for 1.0 to play it? Supposing you have the willpower I wouldn’t that is 😅

simple,

I’m definitely going to wait. I looked at the gameplay and while it does look exciting I think I’ll get turned off when it abruptly ends and have to wait another few months.

rbits,

I’m definitely waiting. If I have a craving for some Hades, I still have the first game

WhyAUsername_1,

Do they offer steep discount to early buyers? I mean if I get the game at like 20% discount or something in early buy, then i would consider getting it.

breetai, do games w Fallout 4 Next-Gen Update Rolling Out Now

Fallout four seemed to flat. I loved all the other games. Just not that one.

catloaf, do games w Fallout 4 Next-Gen Update Rolling Out Now

The next-gen update includes native applications for the consoles, Performance mode and Quality mode settings, as well as stability improvements and fixes. This means the game will be playable up to 60 frames per second and with an increased resolution.

Really stretching the definition of “next-gen” there. I’m pretty sure those have been standard for years now. But then it is Bethesda we’re talking about, still using the same hacked-up engine from Morrowind.

Bluerat,

I mean, it did come out 8 years ago. It’s next Gen vs when I launched at least.

echodot, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

I don’t trust them as a company. They basically gave up on dreams even though it was actually a moderately successful product.

But they became really obsessed with their vision of what the product should be rather than adding the content that the player base wanted.

kratoz29, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

Never played it, but this news is always sad, hopefully the community is in the works of archiving this, of already did.

PiratePanPan, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms
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Thanks a lot, Biden! /s

hal_5700X, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

Welcome to the world of tomorrow. Who we all helped to make.

NoSpiritAnimal,
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This is fun because I have no idea what this is because I was immediately bombarded with ads.

breckenedge,

Guy shouts “welcome to the world of tomorrow” from Futurama EP 1 when Fry gets unfrozen.

Could have been an image with a caption.

NoSpiritAnimal,
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It’s a very fitting quote for an ad barrage

TwilightVulpine,

We “all helped” as in people in charge gave us no choice and we didn’t choose the choices we didn’t have.

Hell, even then there’s still people fighting to preserve and host games on their own regardless.

can, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

Shame there wasn’t more notice. I’m sure the community would have tried to do something.

manmachine, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms
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Not a week comes by without a reminder about www.stopkillinggames.com

VicentAdultman,

'member when we were able to self host servers of our games? I member. CoD4 was awesome because of that, later the pirated version of MW2 too. These games (the first MW and MW2) are still alive because of that.

kalpol,

Is Enemy Territory still alive?

ILikeBoobies,

Cod WAW has user servers but they stopped paying for their anti cheat so vanilla servers either block you or are fudged

Plutonium fixes this

umbrella,
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we should push for them to release server software

aniki, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

Sounds like they tried to patch some security vulnerabilities and it broke something so catastrophic that they would need do to a major re-write.

Does this also break the single player portion?

VaultBoyNewVegas,

No. Just the online components.

PotatoKat, do games w LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms

If you’re playing on ps3 or emulation you can play online using lbpunion.com they’re currently looking into ps4 support, but just know that it requires CFW.

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