Archangel768 said:
Square Enix
They went from making tons of single player games that were for the most part really well received to present day where they focus on distributing games digitally, online games, using dlc, most games from them are mediocre these days, Square merged with Enix to make Square Enix in that time, they acquired Eidos and Taito, some of the companies choices to put mediocre cheaper methods above the quality of their games have resulted in the CEO receiving death threats (Final Fantasy XIII going to 360 in Japan) and the company has lost the love of many fans and receives a lot of criticism today and is no longer seen as capable of outputting high quality games (except for their Eidos branch but, that's not REALLY Square Enix now is it?) They have seen the creator of the Final Fantasy series leave them to form his own company, I also read they have shut down their internal music team (one of the things that Final Fantasy is known for is its music) and despite their efforts to reduce the quality of their products in order to save money and gain more revenue through cheap tricks they continue to see year over year declines in net income and revenue. Many things have changed.
In short, they were once a great company that were capable of making many high quality games but due to their own stupidity (the development team for XIII didn't work together to efficiently develop the game) and their reliance on cheap tricks has seen a rapid decline in reputation and income.
First off, this.
Secondly, and this is off topic so I'll keep it brief, how does putting FF13 on Xbox 360 warrant any hostilities, much less a death threat? That makes no sense whatsoever. Or were they mad over the games' quality?
EDIT: Also, Microsoft. They've gone from producing a lot of software for computers to being an entertainment giant, most especially with their Zune and Xbox.
Nintendo. They've gone from all about good games to all about
stupid controllers innovation.
