Square-Enix REJECTS Sony PlayStation as Fans Panic + Woke Warhammer 40K Games Workshop RUINS Future 

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Make warhammer, not lovehammer

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

There has never been a female custodes

"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.

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

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

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

Warhammer is still bad but good on Square Enix.

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

Division Exclusion Isolation Spread the word.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

I NEED that Tifa thumbnail.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Soystation taking so many Ls lately Xbox aint far behind

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.

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

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.

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.

Rachel Tongue curse lives in Warhammer 40K

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!!!!

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

I can also do what I want, signed Ron Swanson

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

Chinese company bans negative reviews, shocking. 🙄

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.

square not abandoning sony, its sef preservation

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Hopefully that means less hypocritical censorship and nfts too.

#RejectWokeWarhammer

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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

Absolute brilliance with that thumbnail.

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Man of culture for the creativity of this thumbnail 💛👍

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.

Screw Sony. There is a reason that Nintendo has been wiping the floor with them for the last7 years.

I bought and read every Horus Heresy book, and instantly dropped Warhammer 40K when they showed that aren’t protective of their IP & its lore, it’s meaningless to them & they only want money. So fuck Warhammer 40K going forward, I’ll stick to the old stuff they have and never give them a cent moving forward.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 remember when you said Xbox's competition was important. When Sony has no natural threat in the AAA-capable console game, they'll treat their players even worse. The players can't keep them in check alone. We need companies to one-up each other.

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

Even through the yearly price hikes, even though a gallon of milk costs me 7 dollars I would have been excited to support 40k. I was excited for great models, TV shows, movies, toys that show my kid how cool 40k is! 40k was all I had left after Star Wars... now they have followed them down the woke road straight to apathy. I dropped my subscription to GW and picked up One Page Rules. 10 usd/month for both fantasy and grimdark future army building.

Games going on PC as nature intended, gaming is healing

The way the gaming space SHOULD work is all games should release on all platforms, the incentive should be what the platform has to offer! As a consumer I should be able to buy game x on any platform, but the thing that brings me to that platform should be "which one of these systems is easiest for me to operate/ has the most bells and whistles for my buck?" Exclusivity does nothing but cut off entertainment from people who either chose wrong I. The eyes of the corporation or who can't afford multiple devices

Even though I'm a fan of PlayStation I'm happy for square enix. I wish more companies went multiplatform. More games for everyone on every platform. Sign me up 😎👍

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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