Sacked Square Enix CEO Youichi Wada’s decision to relocate the company based on the advice of a feng shui (or “fuusui” as it is known in Japan) master is being blamed for the company’s precipitous declined.
One Square Enix employee has this to say about the matter:
Our company moved from Shinjuku to east Shinjuku. No clear reason was given for the transfer, and people were joking that Wada made the choice for reasons of feng shui. But the truth is it may have had the opposite effect, and the rumour is that the new location has very bad feng shui.
It’s not just our corporate performance which suffered – young creative staff have died suddenly and others have been afflicted with cancer. Some have been saying we would have been better off giving them a Shinto exorcism. And perhaps it would have been better had Wada decided our new location according to feng shui alone.
Whilst directly attributing the company’s failure to poor geomancy would likely be an absurd conclusion, attributing it to a CEO so utterly inept as to base business decisions on what a fortune teller told him might well be a plausible explanation.
In fact, no less than top Square Enix composer Nobuo Uematsu has said in a 2008 interview that Wada himself told him a “Taiwanese fortune teller called Pao” advised him where to move the company HQ, and that as he could not abide their new location he left the company.
Well, feng shui is a common believe in eastern asia so it’s not *that* unusual to relocate because of bad feng shui.
Of course, they failed because of primitive Chinaman superstition! Damn bastards always finding some way to get revenge on the Japs for WW2.
It has nothing to do with the office move, it does however have everything to do with the acquisition of Enix, that is when the fall started even if that is not when the monetary issues started.
Enix > use employees that crashed enix > games fell apart > s♥♥t economy > fail
FF7, FF8 and FFX are the real best games I have ever played. This whole Lightning chick following 2 or 3 FFs. Not a fan of. Maybe get back towards make you guys so great, I’ll humbly pick the controller up once again and play the awesome games.
If they really want to get this fixed they should make a PS4 remake of FF7, that might save teh company provided they dont run out of money making it.
Yes, because making a remake of a old game everyone’s played is how you show your creativity. Dumbass.