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Cut all ties to anything DEI & ESG related. That's when I will believe these game dev company.

Make warhammer, not lovehammer

There has never been a female custodes

Warhammer is still bad but good on Square Enix.

"Get woke, go broke." Those entertainment companies have made hating their fans the norm, and then when they have low profits, they act like they don't know why. And Xbox sucks now. They're like the video game version of Disney.

Games need to stop being movies. Shit was great when it was a one off but every game doesnt need to be a 16 hour movie.

Another problem that heavily damaged Square’s profits was the fallout from their dumbass CEO burning piles of money chasing industry trends like live service narrative games, battle royals, and NFT projects. That company would’ve gone bankrupt in the last few years if they couldn’t heavily lean on CBU3’s FFXIV and XVI

The only way Games Workshop is going to win the community back is by mass layoffs of everyone from the CEOs to the workers who were diversity hires and have all this other woke bulshit, and then multiple years of commitments to lowering prices as well as endorsing and paying those who do fan animations

Its AAA game industry what is crashing not gaming sphere as a whole And im all for it

About time, they realise that every game the woke west touches will die

Nintendo meanwhile is watching the whole industry fall apart knowing that video game crash is on horizon

At this point if you're an Eastern developer, being an exclusivity partner with Sony is like teaming up with someone who hates and wants to destroy you.

DEI hires are the first to go. Now, if they would stop hiring "equity consultants" gaming can turn back around. Sadly we got at least 7 to 10 years before that happens.

I dont think the 40k fandom is split, I think there is a very loud but very small insurgency that agrees with this crap or at least pretends to. 95% of 40k fans dont want this crap dont agree with this crap and I think a large portion of them are not going to continue to support GW. and to be honest if Henry walks then we know its truly over and unrecoverable.

Essentially, this is the results of trying to please people who don’t even play these games or care for the lore. These companies refuse to learn to not make your actual customers angry with idiotic decision making.

I don't expect Square Enix to bounce back to their former glory after cleaning house and cutting ties but it'll be a surprise if they did in the future.

Division Exclusion Isolation Spread the word.

They overhire then have to have layoffs but now they're full of protected classes so of course they're gonna start shedding the competent in favor of quota hires.

Everything great starting to go woke movies tv shows comic books even video games now table top RPG. We're running out of things to enjoy in this world without DEI ruining it.

the whole reason I don't play more square enix games is they are usually sony exclusives. that being said, the few new releases they do have on steam are priced outrageously to me. I'm sorry, I'm not paying $60 for Octopath Traveler.

Its astonishing that these fools still think that you can correlate budget to success or quality. What a joke.

The CPA’ification of gaming has pushed the industry off the cliff. The industry used to be run by private companies whose leadership were gamers themselves who cared about the games and made games they themselves wanted to play. Now the industry is run by CEOs/CFOs and accountants who don’t play games, their only focus is to maximize shareholder value. Once these gaming companies started goin public or selling to mega corporations, the people in charge were no longer people playing the games, they didn’t care about the product, the only focus was on money. This is why quality dipped, live service purple dragon was being chased by everyone; and the everyday customer suffered.

Endymion: “ games are so expensive to make” Also Endymion: “they should unionize.” Yeah that’s always solved the expense issue😂

Square arguably helped make Playstation a success so losing them as a partner is...*very bad* for Sony

GW overcharging and greedily raising prices is something that they've always been known for. Back in the early 2000s I had a couple friends that worked in a GW store. They got a huge employee discount but apparently GW *still* made a profit off of the things their employees bought. They told me that whenever anyone was getting ready to quit they would buy as much merchandise as they possibly could while they still had their discount because once it was gone they'd never be buying anything from GW again. Back then GW could get away with it because of how much they dominated the tabletop war game scene. These days, thogh, GW can't even pretend to be the only game in town anymore since plenty of other tabletop miniature games have cropped up. That's also the reason they can't justify their high prices by claiming high production costs or that their products are just super high quality, since there are plenty of competitors that sell quality miniature box sets at half the price of what GW would charge. To be honest, the only thing keeping a lot of people loyal to GW is the setting and lore of 40k, so if GW throws all that away I can't really see them surviving as a company.

'Peanut to Atom Bomb' sounds like an awesome band name.

I NEED that Tifa thumbnail.

Looks like I'm buying a 3D printer for my Warhammer models Edit: Justice for the sisters of silence

I'm a Playstation 5 player. I also have the OLED switch and Xbox one S. I happy that square Enix is going to make their future games multi platform. I love playing helldivers 2 on my PS5 but I wish it would be available on xbox so my Halo friends can play with me, I have made some pc helldivers 2 friends.

And yet, still no good news of Warhammer pushback.

Maybe with Square rejecting trash ass Sony maybe they can get that Remake censorship revoked.

Whats more disturbing about warhammer is all the warhammer youtubers that won't acknowledge the pedophile content as a bad thing and condemn it

Sony fans: "NOOOOOO!!! SQUARE!!!! DON'T LEAVE US!!! HOW DARE YOU BETRAY US!!!! Nintendo fans: (deep fogger inhale) "First time?"

Reminds me of that Justice League Unlimited episode, where a man criticizes the price for his meal and is arrested by the police for it.

As an Xbox user and fan this makes me happy seeing what square is deciding finally some good news in the gaming industry

People who get mad over exclusivity ending are so full of a faux sense of loyalty its sad

I think you’re find that the people who have an issue about Sony games coming to PC and other platforms are known as PlayStation fanboys.

I can also do what I want, signed Ron Swanson

Not sure what's up with Microsoft and Sony lately, well..a lot of it is DEI/neo-Marxist infection causing them to make dumb money losing decisions. But as a PS5 owner, am looking forwards to finally building a PC. Sony 7& MS need to sort themselves out.

Soystation taking so many Ls lately Xbox aint far behind

So limiting your player base to 1 console limits sales? Who'd have guessed!

Rachel Tongue curse lives in Warhammer 40K

Anti customer exclusivity deals on games should have ended a decade ago at least. These companies needs to stop thinking like gamers 'owe' them anything just for existing.

So, you can have a high profit margin by respecting your consumer base? Heresy!!! He's a witch!!!! He's speaking blasphemy against the Games Workshop overlords!!!!

GW would need to wipe out the whole female custodes thing alltogether, make the custodes viable in the game (refresh their rules and improve their stats etc), as well as keep this woke shit OUT OF THEIR GAME. They should have known this to happen considering the political climate and how woke companies tend to suffer.

"all cream together" seriously? remember when a bund of woke dev cream at the sky?

Chinese company bans negative reviews, shocking. 🙄

Chinese? That explains *SO* much. To them, that clause is just standard practice. I bet it surprised the heck out of them that they even got questioned about it, let alone the backlash.

It's almost like if you release your game on more than one store, with different audiences, you can make more money! What a revolutionary concept! I've always thought console exclusivity was a moronic idea.

Ff16 was more like a DMC clone than a FF game. If you blur the line between jrpg rpg and action games you will have mixed results. And of course if you limit the games on Ps4-5 only you adress a 30 to 40 % of total gamers.

square not abandoning sony, its sef preservation

Genius thumbnail

The thing that Square Enix doesn't get is that these games can BE SMALLER. There is SO. MUCH. BLOAT. in these new FF7 games. People really play them for the story. I bet you that 50% of players don't participate in the extra little mini games at ALL if they don't have to. Square's stories are already perfectly fine. If they would just make LESS in the game and make the game faster, they'd perform better.

Hopefully that means less hypocritical censorship and nfts too.

It's a good thing they spent all those money on consultants to get their products updated and out to the modern audience. Imagine if they had just made quality games to the fans...

Most of the job cuts were studios bough up and then cut when times got hard(i.e. CEO didn't want a pay cut because of their failures). On the GW stuff that would include a few PC games and then the when/how of the Amazon deal factors in could be making a difference as well.

For warhammer: I know how to code, and i can learn blender/ godot or unreal. So i'll just do a computer game based on 40k.

So, new age finally begins.... I wonder what innovations await us.

In the grimdark future of miniature war gaming 3D printing is king. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Remember WotC always said the same thing about their little contract that they tried to push when they wanted to steal peoples creations "it was a draft bro"

Honestly never thought I'd see Square come to its senses, good on them.

#RejectWokeWarhammer

Man of culture for the creativity of this thumbnail 💛👍

I advocate for an audit of triple a spending, because we've been constantly told that video game development is expensive, but we're never time what that money is being spent on. At this point i fail to see how video game development wouldn't be money laundering. Audit triple a gaming.

Gamers want a beginning, middle and end to each game - It's simple. You start an adventure, defeat the boss and move to the next game. DLC works sometimes, but an endless sea of DLC is garbage (Most games). Developers and publishers have destroyed that concept, therefore destroyed interest in AAA title games. Endless, irritating updates, endless micro transactions and most abhorrently, launching unfinished titles and "patching later." All three of these acts obliterated the nostalgia, enjoyment and value of the media. The icing on the cake is the absence of collectability - The tactile, physical-media-connection made at the store, gone. The "I can't wait to play this" replaced by instant gratification with the digital copy absolutely cheapens the experience. Making board games, digitized "isn't the same" and digital copies of video games, that you can't ever really own forever, (since the threat of "no longer supporting this title" looms with every purchase) isn't the same. Why buy something and invest time and emotion (let's face it) into it and have it "no longer supported?" They changed it, they broke it and now the Lefty Lunatics are injecting their garbage values into every story, every character...Most people are sick of it all. The industry is a dumpster fire.

What happend to "Every triple AAA title should be Baldur's Gate 3"?

so it begun the fall of titans like EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Bethesda, RockStars, Square Enix and it begins the rise of new small indie games that creates wonder games like V rising, Vampire survivors, Death must die, Going medieval, manor lords, two point hospital, and many more

Absolute brilliance with that thumbnail.

There are two types of gamers. PC gamers and people in the way of progress.

Personally I hate how obsessed with graphics video games are instead of aesthetics. There's a reason other than nostalgia for simpler looking games to be successful. They usually look good. Not "oh my god this looks like the latest bullshit movie Marvel put out" but just good. Clean, easy to look at, easy to understand and functional. Pushing graphics too far is just useless bling and bloat. Nintendo often wins on this one. FF16 and the FF7 ongoing collection are cool but I do think a lot of it looks busy and overdesigned with way too many particles. They look better than Forespoken but they follow the same trend of putting a bunch of junk effects on the screen at fast rates. I much prefer the more focused look that the PS2 era gave us with games like God of War, FF12 and Silent Hill 3. They looked good and the hardware limitations forced them to look cleaner. If FF7 Rebirth was on PS4 and other less powerful plataforms it would have done better and wouldn't sacrifice much of the looks anyway, even though I would prefer it to look cleaner.

A non-disparagement clause is 100% unenforceable. You can absolutely criticize a product.

4:30 I cannot resist pointing out that they are planning a "*shit* to multiplatform strategy"

I hope PC players can now get Square Enix games on the same day as other platforms' players.

Surprised you didn’t mention stellar blade in the mass. Censorship going on with asian games.

The reality is, this generation, I haven't seen many exclusives that really grabbed me outside of Nintendo Switch, and that's kind of sad. I have other consoles too, barely play them other than the Switch and the PC.

FF7 Remake is now an 'old' game, don't try to charge me full price on my PC! 😝

Woke wins again. There's no hope for us gamers anymore 😢.

Square Enix is woke as shit...... Also on Sweet baby inc.. final fantasy 15 you have multiple famine man 🤢🤮....

130 Million+ on Steam/PC users. 117 Million+ PS4/PS4 Pro users. 120 Million+ Xbox users. 123 Million+ Switch users. That's still additional revenue they missed out on. (59.3 Million PS5's)

GW are growing the market for 3D printers out there, and killing their own product.

Another big problem with the decline in video game sales is that the price for Games is only going up. I remember my first preorder for a game being $50 US back in 2008 now its $70-80. The Value of Money is also on a steady decline, so people are making less to spend more. Which results in people having to choose which games they want to spend money on. Used to be me and my brother-in-law would make a list of games we both wanted, we share our consoles, me being the Xbox guy, him the PlayStation, since 2014 the lists have gotten smaller because we had to budget money for more important things than gaming and we couldn't afford to spend $500 on video games a year

Lol the thumbnail with Tifa's booba for the two letters O's on "Doom" 🤣🤣🤣

I hope that this "gaming collapse" will make companies learn that people want good games, not good movies. -Sincerely, one of the many guys with over 3500 hours on Rimworld

As long as FF7 Remake/Rebirth Part 3 is playable on PS5, I’ll be happy. If it’s _also_ playable on other platforms, then that’s totally fine.

I wonder how much of square's problem is due to their newer games costing $70. I rarely buy games at $60 cause of back log, and now even if I wait for a 50% off sale the price is still 35. I end up waiting for 60% or higher sales for games that are $70 😂

I got NO SYMPATHY for square enix. They brought this onto themselves with the entire FF7 remake debacle. They put out their most beloved IP in a remastered fashion and then broke up the story and experience with mandatory console purchases. I even bought a ps4 for the release…..We won’t be getting the last part of final fantasy 7 remake until the PS6 comes out…. This was THE very first jrpg I ever played and LOVED IT! Loved it… Guess how much money I’ve spent on the IP after ps4?….. $0.00

I just noticed the hashtags, you truly are crazy man, in a good way! Keep spreading the truth!

I don't get why people think exclusivity is a good thing

Where can I find that art of Tifa in the thumbnail? Asking for a friend

What happens when growth stagnates going multiplatform?? It's a band aid not the answer!

Hey Endymion! Can we have NieR footage as background to your videos sometimes?

Sorry gotta state this. I thought Sony itself stated the ps5 was in its end cycle or it had already hit its peak. I can take a correction if im wrong.

Making millions of PC users wait years is insanity. Exclusivity was always a mistake.

I like what you did with the thumbnail. Where's that image from?

what was that cutscene of ships getting blown out of space?

Exclusivity in games can harm developers and publishers by limiting the potential audience, reducing sales, and straining resources. Developers often face higher costs and longer development times to optimise for a single platform, which can stifle creativity and lead to burnout. Publishers lose out on revenue from a broader market, affecting their ability to fund future projects. Additionally, exclusivity fragments gaming communities, especially for multiplayer games, reducing player engagement and game lifespan. In an era of cross-platform play, exclusivity can seem outdated and hinder overall industry growth. I think Square Enix is making the right decision.

Greed is a hell of a drug

i think you underestimate how hard whales will go for Warhammer stuff unfortunately, it feels like thats the main market for GW, the whales and people getting in to the hobby before burning them out. Just my thoughts on it

I remember back in the early 1980s and the good old days of the ZX Spectrum. Full price games, effectively the equivalent of a AAA game, were GBP 9.99 with budget games selling at 5.99. Now you're paying around GBP 50 plus for games, very few of which are actually worth the money.

"No, not that Kiryu." Man, could you imagine the absolute bangers that a studio run by the Dragon of Dojima would put out?