9th May 2022, 5:02 AM
They sold off Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, well basically all their non-Japanese studios. At first, everyone was wondering just why they did it. Speculation ran through many possibilities. Some suggested they were trying to make up for "lackluster" sales in FFXIV (their MMO is actually extremely successful right now, to the point that you would be forgiven for forgetting they actually have three MMOs still in operation, another Final Fantasy and a Dragon Quest: So You Want To Be a Hero.... or was that Dragon Quest: To Heir is Human? No I got it, It's Dragon Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel). Others suggested they were attempting to "slim down" their operation in preparation for being bought out by Sony. Still more assumed it was just good ol' fashioned Japanese business culture making them desire to have all their companies within the home country.
No, none of that please and thank you. It was the least of these, a tease if you please for NFTs. I won't insert the Kefka laugh yet. They sold off Tomb Raider, that OTHER PS1 game with the big boombas lady "competing" with their own Tifa, in order to get more spendable capital to spend on NFTs. Customer good will? Providing products people actually want to buy? That's so old-hat. The future is forcing their product on the unwilling, and the future demands ever higher profit year after year forever, or until we all die. NOW I'll insert the Kefka laugh, because it's more nihilistic and thus character appropriate.
No, none of that please and thank you. It was the least of these, a tease if you please for NFTs. I won't insert the Kefka laugh yet. They sold off Tomb Raider, that OTHER PS1 game with the big boombas lady "competing" with their own Tifa, in order to get more spendable capital to spend on NFTs. Customer good will? Providing products people actually want to buy? That's so old-hat. The future is forcing their product on the unwilling, and the future demands ever higher profit year after year forever, or until we all die. NOW I'll insert the Kefka laugh, because it's more nihilistic and thus character appropriate.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)