Square Enix General News

[6souls]

[BWYuko]

FYI - SE is having a sale on the Nintendo eShop at the moment. All prices in USD.

Nintendo Switch

• Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy! ($19.99)
• Final Fantasy VII ($7.99)
• Final Fantasy VIII Remastered ($9.99)
• Final Fantasy IX ($10.49)
• Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster ($24.99)
• Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age ($24.99)
• Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition HD ($14.99)
• I Am Setsuna ($19.99)
• Lost Sphear ($19.99)
• Oninaki ($24.99)
• Romancing SaGa 2 ($12.49)
• SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions ($22.49)
• Spelunker Party! ($14.99)
• Star Ocean First Departure R ($14.06)
• World of Final Fantasy Maxima ($19.99)

Nintendo 3DS

• Final Fantasy Explorers ($19.99)
• Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call ($19.99)

[Ayn]

Y/N on Chocobo's dungeon?

[theshun]

Have you played any top-down dungeon crawler like that? It's fun and the kid loved watching it but it is not for everyone.

[arus2001]

Watching other people play it, I'd probably call it a pass.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/SquareEnix/statu...66735684333568

[Kaisha]

Did SE clean up their Android shop at some point? There's pretty much fuck-all on there that isn't FF/SNES/PS1 ports and Dragon Quest stuff. They used to have some older titles (Chaos Rings), a few live-service games (probably shut down all that wasn't Brave Exvius?), and other ones I can't recall off the top of my head. The Eidos side of their store seems to be the same though.

[Qalbert]

https://twitter.com/AllGamesDelta_/s...00113093193728

[6souls]

Could be a Destiny crossover.

[carlweathers]

Could be a Destiny crossover.

I thought the Shadowkeep/Shadowbringers titles being so similar and close together was funny, but now with the Forspoken/Forsaken comparison I feel SE is just fucking with ppl, haha.

[BWYuko]

SE to make their employee work-from-home policy permanent starting December 1st.

Here's the press release:

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Tokyo, Japan (November 25, 2020) - Square Enix CO., LTD. (headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director Yosuke Matsuda; hereinafter the "Company") currently enables work from home and will officially offer a permanent work-from-home program to all executive officers and employees as of December 1, 2020.

Rather than utilizing work from home solely as a means of preventing infections during the current pandemic, the Company will establish it as a permanent and core program among the working styles it accommodates. In so doing, the Company hopes not only to create a flexible and diverse working environment, but also to further bolster productivity and help employees achieve the optimal work-life balance.

The additional options this program creates will also enable the Company to recruit more diverse human resources, as well as to establish an organization capable of adapting to unexpected developments such as disasters and changes in employment models. By adopting a new style of working for a new world, the Company will enable employees to unleash even greater creativity as it continues to provide its customers around the world with content and services that fulfill their expectations. In so doing, the Company will strive to further enhance its corporate value.




Work-from-home Program
Providing customers with unforgettable entertainment requires creativity and productivity. Moreover, the nature of the work involved demands consistent, robust security. As such, the Work-from-home Program will combine "home-based" and "office-based" models.

The Company will designate each employee as either "home based" (working an average of at least three days per week from home) or "office based" (working an average of at least three days per week from the office). In general, all eligible employees will be designated as "home based." Division heads will designate some positions or individual employees as "office based" as dictated by the nature of the work involved.

Status changes will be allowed on a monthly basis depending upon the intensity of an employee's duties. The Company expects approximately 80% of employees to be home based in December, the first month of the program's implementation.

Program name
-Work-from-home Program

Eligible companies (other than the Company, Square Enix Co., Ltd.)
-Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.
-Luminous Productions Co., Ltd.

Start date
-December 1, 2020

Reasons for program implementation
The Company had for some time been exploring options for enabling greater flexibility in working styles when the COVID-19 outbreak occurred. In response, the Company implemented a series of measures starting in February 2020 that included enabling work from home, staggered working hours, and online conferencing.

Following a sustained period with these measures in place, the Company conducted a survey in June that demonstrated that roughly 80% of employees had a positive view of work from home. The Company also carefully considered a wide range of opinions from businesses as diverse as games, publication, and music regarding the practicality of work from home. This program was finalized based on those considerations. By enabling the option of monthly status changes rather than establishing blanket rules regarding who works from home and who from the office, the Company has designed a program that should be highly satisfactory both to those performing duties and those managing them.

Good on them. Japan game devs were infamous for forcing long hours before the pandemic. How many times did we see stories of young workers literally sleeping under their desks to make heinous deadlines? Glad to see the productivity of remote work spoke for itself, and one of the bigger devs has invested in trying to quash the old "salaryman" trope.

[6souls]

People Can Fly Announce Another Game With SE, Will Release by 2024

[6souls]

[Tyrath]

Gimme more FF16 info pls

[6souls]

Gimme more FF16 info pls

No, buy Avengers.

[Tyrath]

No, buy Avengers.

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/gematsucom/statu...78206186594307

[KuroTsuki]

Nice. So Xenogears remake is a real possibility now.

As I said in the FFVIIR thread, even just an upgrade to graphics would be good for me. I doubt these guys would be able to fix disc 2.

[Tyrath]

Wasn't the Panzer Dragon: Remake bad? I didn't play it, but thats what people said.

Looks like the same people

[Cantih]

Dunno about bad, but Max and Simmons complained that it didn't FEEL like the original Panzer Dragoon in the controls.