I'll get straight to the point... Square Enix is a cash-whore! Nowadays who isnt? Even behind every great game, there's $$$ involved. The smart cash whores publish the good games and get a good return on their investment. The idiotic ones are those who publish games in the hope of making easy money. Its not always straight forward though, some smart ones sometimes fail to get the return due to poor sales and the idotic ones can get away with selling a million copies of some shitty game which might have a popular license tied into the game.
Now... I'm not only calling Square Enix a cash-whore because FFXIII is also coming the 360 or because they claim that they are a "multiplatform publisher" but they havent released a single PS3 title and have already puked out abortions like Infinite Undiscovery and Last Remnant for the 360. Also, not calling them cash-whores for allegedly taking under the table moneyhat for Star Ocean 4's exclusivity. What I'm calling them out for is... for not only milking the crap out of their Final Fantasy franchise but also skimming the milk that is FFVII.
I dont wanna bother listing down the zillions of iterations of Final Fantasy VII thats out
there. But also having the many different
versions of the same product. I guess one of the reasons is because of the existance of loyal cocksucking fanboys that are out there, who will pay a good amount of money on a
book which only contains some screenshots/concept art of a game yet to be released.
I know and appreciate that Square's art is very strong, but come-the-fuck-on!!! When I see the long ass lines at TGS to watch the upcoming game trailers, I can understand. Afterall, you are getting free glimps or trial of a game that you are looking forward to. But then again, when I see people say stuff in forums like "I wouldnt mind buying the FFXIII demo that comes with Advent Children Complete", its then I realize where Square gets the idea to charge EXTRA 1000yen for slipping in the demo with the bluray disc. Ofcourse fantards will argue "its 20 hours of gameplay" and I say "yeah, its the same fucking 20 hours of gameplay that I will get when I buy the full fucking version of the game, jackass!" Its like if someone asked me to buy the 1st 2 hours of MGS4 on a disc before the game would release. I'd give Konami the finger instead of my money if they did that.
Hmmm... now I realize, I shouldnt be mad at Square. I'm now pissed at the idiots who worship anything Square throws in their faces. Its like saying..."Oh I cant wait to try the FFXIII demo, which is supposed to be FREE like any other demo, but I will pay you some of my hard earned cash to show you my appreciation. Wait... why should it be only me? Every single of my fellow fucking fantards should show appreciation. So please charge money for it and we'll all gladly BUY whats supposed to be FREE. We're also willing to throw in cash for anything you release, so make sure you overprice them!"
All I can say is ... its your money and if you happily wanna spend it go ahead. But when you cross the line of hardcore fanboyism it encourages publishers to charge for items that are supposed to be free. And even those of us, who appreciates games and understands game development is expensive, find it hard to throw away our money at such crap! If you are one of those senseless spoilt brats who bought 2 copies of FFXIII poster in order to "treasure" one of them and hang the other, I hope God blesses you with a brain or curses you with proverty depending on which disease you have.
Finally back! Got my new mini HD camcorder ready and thought I'd give it a shot at the Video Games Live concert last night. And boy...I had my socks blown off!
