Square Enix’s latest exciting new title has been announced as “Grand Union” – a social card battle game for mobile phones, prompting the usual howls from the few remaining gamers who expect anything more from the company.
Aside from the usual moaning about Square Enix focusing on facile card games instead of endless JRPG sequels, the declining quality of the art employed in their card game has also aroused comment.
The game is due for release on smartphone platforms, although Square Enix has already demonstrated it has more than enough gall to consider porting such titles to handhelds as well.
Step 1: Hire artists
Step 2: Copy and paste “gameplay” engine from 700 others like it
Step 3: ????
Step 4: PROFIT!
Art is the only cost, then they just sit there while people throw money at them for RNG prizes and stat bonuses.
Pay2Win is like intellectual and social cancer. One mistake of getting to close to it and everything nearby stops working and starts to kill off the creature slowly and painfully. And it’s usually terminal.
Huh. Could have sword Hyperdimension Neptunia V was the end of the series, what is this?
This cheap and crappy even for japanese games.
R.I.P Squaresoft
I gave up on SE ages ago after the led us on with Versus 13 and didn’t deliver.