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Square Enix is reporting profits for fiscal 2010 to date are down 76% to a mere $22 million, a change it blames on “more discerning consumers.”

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  • Hartley Skead commented on May 28, 2011 04:36

    What they need to do is make a Final Fantasy that isn't linear (FFX, FFXIII). They need to go along the lines of 7, 8, and 9. Creating a world that's worth exploring with towns,... More

  • Anonymous commented on February 11, 2011 02:00

    Who cares about the "JOB SYSTEM" The main fact is this, all other MMO's don't charge you for a EXTRA CHARACTER. I don't give a shit, if they can do 1000000 jobs. The main fact is this INVENTORY... More

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Japan: “Piracy Increases Anime Sales”

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Japan’s prestigious Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), a government-affiliated economics think-tank, has published detailed research suggesting anime piracy can boost disc sales.

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  • Anonymous commented on March 19, 2014 18:06

    i already made a post, but gotta reply, i would never ever buy a dvd or bluray of a series i like, but then again, there's lots of other kind of merchandise available, so if... More

  • Anonymous commented on March 19, 2014 17:58

    and then theres guys like me, that download everything, do not buy any series, but buy all sorts of other kinds of merchandise related to the franchise im interested in. i cannot download a figure... More

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Top late night anime broadcast Tokyo MX has said it may stop showing anime with “extreme” content as a result of Tokyo’s anime/manga ban, and even goes so far as to say it will no longer be offering jobs to anime fans.

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  • Musashi75 commented on April 20, 2013 06:05

    Selling censored porn is ok but uncensored late night ecchi anime is "wrong"... More

  • Nymphonomicon commented on July 16, 2012 10:40

    Ishihara Shintaro - proof that crazy, hateful, and outright despicable people live far longer lives than they should.... More

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Sega, Capcom, Konami “Dump Consoles for Phones, SNS”

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Top Japanese game companies such as Sega, Capcom and Konami are reported to be drastically scaling back their releases of games for console platforms, whilst drastically scaling up their output of games for mobile phones and social networking services.

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  • Anonymous commented on September 21, 2011 16:42

    sega? why?... More

  • Anonymous commented on May 1, 2011 22:52

    It has to get worse before it gets better. Pride before the fall and all that rot.... More

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Madhouse’s New Anime Pure China Quality

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Noted anime producer Madhouse has been reduced to the laughing stock of the industry after it emerged that the company is stuck producing an anime adaptation of an office comic for Chinese TV.

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  • Anonymous commented on January 3, 2011 19:48

    All these box heads are reminding me of Katamari Damacy. What a wonderfully unique experience ^_^... More

  • Anonymous commented on January 1, 2011 21:16

    Better than you thought... More

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Japan: “We Will Now Quadruple Anime Exports!”

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A few days after it stood by as the anime industry was humiliatingly singled out for a ban, the Japanese government is now announcing a plan to quadruple anime and game exports.

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  • Anonymous commented on December 26, 2010 04:18

    NOW I SEE IT !!!! First the ban the Loli and Porn, to give anime and manga a better image in Joe Publics eyes and then the take over the industry and THAN the can export more and... More

  • Castian commented on December 25, 2010 10:20

    i just hope that "Western Market" its not only USA Canada, Mexico and the whole Southamerica are great buyers of Anime and Japanese Games, saddly the lack of japanese "Effort" to sell it to us its... More

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Wada: “We’re So Bad We’ll Have To Rebuild Our Brands”

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Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has said that he regrets letting all Square Enix’s games get so “sloppy,” and says the company will have to rebuild them all as a result.

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  • Anonymous commented on January 31, 2011 07:04

    Fuck you, buddeh. If you call 'getting my money's worth' and having a decent length game 'bloat', and 'something only a kid or teenager has time for', then why don't you go pick up a nice,... More

  • Anonymous commented on January 8, 2011 05:55

    The herp derp is rampant in this thread. First of all I'd like to say that enix killed square, not the other way around, at least from an RPG fan point of view. Second of... More

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Square Enix has announced a 90% drop in its projected profits, a disaster it grovellingly blames on Final Fantasy XIV.

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  • Anonymous commented on January 17, 2013 20:39

    What's up everybody, here every person is sharing these kinds of familiarity, thus it's pleasant to read this blog, and I used to visit this website all the time.... More

  • Anonymous commented on January 17, 2013 19:11

    I got this web page from my pal who informed me about this site and now this time I am browsing this web site and reading very informative content at this place.... More

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Bandai Namco has announced they will be halting all their overseas development efforts because they failed completely.

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  • Anonymous commented on September 2, 2013 02:00

    And ironically this art is done by Todd Mcfarlane... More

  • Anonymous commented on November 29, 2011 03:26

    You don't need to appeal to the western audience with western ideals. As long as it's intersting and fun people will play it. They aren't giving themselves a chance. I would play tales of grace,... More

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Not satisfied with the kerfuffle he caused with his J-Comi launch remarks,  mangaka Ken Akamatsu is now picking a fight with NicoNico Douga, accusing them of profiting by stealing the works of others without giving them proper compensation.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 1, 2011 00:32

    ppl act like wanting money is a sin, when they themselves don't want to pay money for what they get. hypocrisy... If his works are good enough ppl want to read them, WTF is wrong with him... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 3, 2010 14:56

    Akamatsu is amazing a great writer and an amazing artist. What you don't seem to understand is that he is just doing what he needs to do to survive. Try putting yourself in his shoes... More

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J-Comi Starts: “450,000 DLs, But Nobody Bought a Thing!”

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Ken Akamatsu’s free manga distribution service “J-Comi” has launched (in beta form) to much fanfare with the complete Love Hina collection, but Akamatsu is publicly lamenting the fact that it seems all the users are too miserly to buy anything from his affiliate links, putting the project’s future in doubt before it is even out of beta.

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  • Anonymous commented on December 30, 2012 22:50

    >shit don't sell >cry to everyone 'buy my shit' I'd expect no less from a faggot like Akamatsu... More

  • Anonymous commented on December 3, 2010 19:10

    450K downloaders probably used 4.5 million minutes of time and this is just a single game. What portion went to the content creators? It is the telecommunications companies and even computer component making companies that must... More

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FF14: Attack of the Clones

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What is left of the Final Fantasy XIV player-base is expressing alarm at the number of gold-farmers now swarming the servers, already depopulated enough as it is.

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  • Anonymous commented on September 10, 2011 13:11

    yep 20,000 bots and prolly 4000 players... More

  • Anonymous commented on November 28, 2010 02:35

    I like how instead of writing an article about the massive improvement on UI lag (eliminating it) they nit pick at something that I haven't even seen before myself.... More

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