Yikes, if that's the case, I hope it's just a non-canon Verse Two-type of deal after beating Episode: Ardyn's main canon route, because I want canon story material, not mixed in with non-canon material.
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https://gamestalk.net/post-114600/
Tabata says his new company is self funded and he never asked for investors to help fund him, and he says that they have a few employees right now.
He talked about wanting to change the way the development process works, where he mentions regarding XV how a typical part would be when development got busy at SE they'd get external help from outsourced studios in Malaysia/Vietnam and also would have to provide high spec PCs and the security protocols they'd have to make themselves. He said that was a really difficult time and wants to try a cloud based development pipeline, and was actually going to try something like that before he decided to leave SE. He says he thinks they can still make a AAA game despite having only a few employees. He mentioned platforms they'd target being for the game include home systems, PC and phones. He says he wants to make a large scale game but doesn't want to hire a lot of developers at one place.
He also again reaffirms that he resigned from SE on his own descision and that he wasn't fired, he states that there was no bad blood or soured relationship with him or SE, and that the XV DLC cancellation had no relation to his decision to leave SE, he said he decided to quit SE to try his own thing without being a burden on the company or anyone there. He also says he was also sad to hear about the cancellation about the XV DLC and is sorry to the fans who were looking forward to those.
https://gamestalk.net/post-114600/
Tabata says his new company is self funded and he never asked for investors to help fund him, and he says that they have a few employees right now.
He talked about wanting to change the way the development process works, where he mentions regarding XV how a typical part would be when development got busy at SE they'd get external help from outsourced studios in Malaysia/Vietnam and also would have to provide high spec PCs and the security protocols they'd have to make themselves. He said that was a really difficult time and wants to try a cloud based development pipeline, and was actually going to try something like that before he decided to leave SE. He says he thinks they can still make a AAA game despite having only a few employees. He mentioned platforms they'd target being for the game include home systems, PC and phones. He says he wants to make a large scale game but doesn't want to hire a lot of developers at one place.
He also again reaffirms that he resigned from SE on his own descision and that he wasn't fired, he states that there was no bad blood or soured relationship with him or SE, and that the XV DLC cancellation had no relation to his decision to leave SE, he said he decided to quit SE to try his own thing without being a burden on the company or anyone there. He also says he was also sad to hear about the cancellation about the XV DLC and is sorry to the fans who were looking forward to those.
Are we sure that japanese tweet isn't actually in relation to the team wanting to persue the cancelled DLCs in some form via other media format? The other person who made the translation pics credited his tweets that said such, which leads me to believe that's what the Japanese tweet itself meant.
The last point in that translated pic confirms the idea, and the only thing we know that's being touched upon from the alternate routes is the entity of the mysterious voice from EP. Ignis' verse 2.
The last point in that translated pic confirms the idea, and the only thing we know that's being touched upon from the alternate routes is the entity of the mysterious voice from EP. Ignis' verse 2.
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I don't think that bit about ep Noct and Luna being in ep Ardyn was something the devs said but just something that person wants them to do. Since the devs said they were looking at different ways to deliver the cancelled DLC which is why they mentioned doing it as an anime or manga or novel or Drama CD or movie etc.
Yes.
The mysterious voice from the crystal is the only thing currently mentioned as having a connection to stuff in Episode Ardyn, btw they also said the voice is not Bahamut.
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The mysterious voice from the crystal is the only thing currently mentioned as having a connection to stuff in Episode Ardyn, btw they also said the voice is not Bahamut.
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I never thought that the voice was Bahamut's, it sounded almost like Lunafreya's, but deeper. As much as I didn't like Episode: Ignis' Verse Two, I am curious about the voice.
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The voice according to the credits is voiced by Luna's VA in all languages, but seeing as it's likely the original Oracle her sharing a VA isn't that weird. The voice itself being in the crystal also doesn't necessarily contradict the canon, as things from the main canon timeline exist in Ep Ignis v2 too, like Ignis and Ardyn and the Crystal and so on, it's rather just the events that happen in Ep Ignis V2 that aren't technically canon to the main timeline, but the characters and who and what things are is still as canon as normally is.
So even though we never hear the voice in the main timeline it doens't necessarily mean it wasn't always there, same way as in EpIv2 Ardyn specifically mentions being the brother to the founder king, but in the main timeline to Noctis he doesn't say that the jealous king was his brother, though people naturally just assumed it was given the context.
So even though we never hear the voice in the main timeline it doens't necessarily mean it wasn't always there, same way as in EpIv2 Ardyn specifically mentions being the brother to the founder king, but in the main timeline to Noctis he doesn't say that the jealous king was his brother, though people naturally just assumed it was given the context.
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Anime or movie are my top choices for how to present the remaining DLC. Anime is probably more feasible from a financial standpoint but I feel like a movie would be the best way to visually showcase the remaining story. As a compromise though maybe they could do an anime movie. "FFXV: Dawn of The Future" has a nice ring to it for a movie title.
If 10 years down the road a new team at SE will be tasked to release an “HD collection” of FFXV on the PS6 - compiling all these different pieces of media for the complete experience will be a bitch! I pray for those guys lol
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I don't think that person was saying the devs said they were putting Ep Luna/Noctis stuff in Ep Ardyn, I think that person was just saying they wanted that.
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Wow. :/
I really can't understand SE nowadays.
http://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/181216
Btw Tabata says there was no correlation between him leaving SE and the XV DLC being cancelled.
I got an (additional) proper translation of this article provided for me if anyone is interested:
I really can't understand SE nowadays.
http://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/news/181216
Btw Tabata says there was no correlation between him leaving SE and the XV DLC being cancelled.
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That's his interpretation and I take it with a grain of salt. For my own feelings him "losing motivation" doesn't make sense and a bullshit reason to quit. FFXV is considered the fastest selling FF and despite mine and many other's complaints the game, for the most part, is an upper tier FF, was well received, and he was given his own studio. You would think that things like that would have the opposite effect. There's something missing in this story. I would like to know who came up with the idea of doing a second season of DLC, which when it was announced was a mixed reaction. As a side note: he also made it clear with an interview with Sakaguchi a few months after the game's release that he didn't want to do another FF ever again. I would like to hear from some lowly worker in BD2's side of all of this. Someone that's not going to save face for Square or Tabata. Yet, let this be a lesson for Square and the fan base. This is why you never hand over one person's passion project to someone else. In this case two different people.
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How strange! The DLC cancellation would have been understandable if the project ran into issues that would have required more resources than had been originally allocated, but it makes little sense to cancel something that's going smoothly and offers an effectively-guaranteed return on investment. If the point was just to reconfigure Luminous to work on bigger projects, they could have done that when the DLC was finished and not even lost that much time.
I really hope we eventually figure out what actually went down.
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Actually, this Gematsu article provides more context!
So, it's not that the DLC cancellation and Tabata's departure are unrelated; it's that Tabata didn't leave because of the cancellation. According to the Gematsu article, it sounds like the decision to cancel the DLC came about during the process of Tabata handing over the reins of his various responsibilities to other employees, with Squenix Corporate deciding not to have Tabata's successor in handling the DLC continue it past Episode Ardyn.
In that case... I wonder if it might have been a matter of Tabata's responsibility for the DLCs simply being passed into the hands of someone who was more interested in making a new game than continuing a DLC project that he wasn't personally invested in.
I really hope we eventually figure out what actually went down.
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Actually, this Gematsu article provides more context!
So, it's not that the DLC cancellation and Tabata's departure are unrelated; it's that Tabata didn't leave because of the cancellation. According to the Gematsu article, it sounds like the decision to cancel the DLC came about during the process of Tabata handing over the reins of his various responsibilities to other employees, with Squenix Corporate deciding not to have Tabata's successor in handling the DLC continue it past Episode Ardyn.
In that case... I wonder if it might have been a matter of Tabata's responsibility for the DLCs simply being passed into the hands of someone who was more interested in making a new game than continuing a DLC project that he wasn't personally invested in.
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I think the problem is that Square's upper management has lost sight of what's important, they're in too much of a hurry to rush into the next big thing that will alter the future of gaming forever rather than focusing on something smaller like crafting a well made and memorable experience with what they currently have. Their ambitions have gotten too grand and are getting in the way of their work at this point. Only thing that can save Square at this point is a change in leadership that understands the importance of making do with what you currently have while not being so blinded by the future. Either that or the current leadership needs a very rude awakening though idk what that would be exactly.
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