18-05-2025, 01:15 PM
(18-05-2025, 12:55 PM)Dirty Duck Wrote: I think it was more likely before Square's recent 'Quality over Quantity' shift in business model. Any chances of it now are likely dashed but something KH related that had a chance to also offshoot into it's own continuous IP could have been a project Square were behind I feel.
I think if this was back in the 2000s or so, for sure it could have happened. But games cost so much money and take so much time to be made these days that I just couldn't see Square entertaining the idea at any stage after what happened with the initial release of FFXIV and that window where they really struggled to get projects finished.
I think these last few years in particular will have given them a lot of food for thought. The reception to and sales of FFXVI, lengthy development times for AAA projects, Kingdom Hearts being put on the backburner because of the (hugely successful) FFVII remake project, titles like Metaphor: Refantazio and Clair Obscur releasing for lower than average prices and receiving incredible acclaim across the board, FFXIV still raking in new users and retaining them impressively. There's a lot there to inform them going forward, feels like there have been a lot of structural changes at board level and with the establishment of the business unit teams in the company in the last 10-15 years, let's see if the "new" plans and aims really mark anything significantly different right now.
