Square Enix: "Initial sales have not reached the level we had first expected".
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT offered plenty of fan service, but in other aspects it was incredibly superficial.
The things I liked the most in PSP Dissidia was the RPG elements, and even though the plot fell into the "Square trap" by being too convoluted, I really liked seeing those characters from different games interacting with each other. I didn't hate the battle system, but it was not my favorite aspect either.
Then, in Dissidia NT, they threw away everything I liked about the series, and focused on the battles. And they made it even more chaotic by making it 3 vs 3. Tried playing it in an arcade here in Japan and even tried the free PC version, but I really couldn't care about it.
Did it even have a story?
I never played except 15 minutes of the beta and about 10 second of the free version
I liked being able to customize our fighters with a variety of their iconic moves. The grind was awesome and the environments were so interactive. The music was great. Dissidia NT removed so much of what made dissidia, dissidia, and It just left long time fans of the series (who have been quite vocal about wanting a console iteration) massively disappointed.
Everyone has been saying this since before it came out and all we had were trailers but they keep asking the same question for some stupid reason.
They made it to arcade like and not enough customisation like the previous games but a part of me thinks the reason they stopped development is because they plan to create an NT 2 for PS5.
I know i'm the only one but i find those Dissidia unplayable. Maybe i'm too used to SF, Tekken and thos (i know they're different but we're talking about fighting games). Even the many DragonBall games were more enjoyable for me, the bad ones too :P
Today Square Enix announced the end of active development for its fighting game Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and its arcade counterpart Dissidia Final Fantasy.
Today Square Enix revealed new costumes and weapons coming to Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and its arcade counterpart Dissidia Final Fantasy.
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See what happens when you don’t put in more villains
Damn good game too
Street Fighter V started its life focused on online multiplayer with almost no single player content. It was universally panned. It took a hefty arcade mode for sales and reviews to increase.
Dissidia NT took a series known for its lengthy and complex single player modes and decided to ditch all that to focus on online multiplayer. So I don't think the low sales are a surprise. Let's just see if Square will have to same common sense as Capcom and release an update that includes some decent single player modes.
I dunno why anybody is surprised at all - the previous dissidia games was all about the 1v1 battles, the customizations and great modes available, not this 3v3 mess we never asked for
This is what happens when you go down the online focused path these days. Gamers are getting bored of too many multiplayer games... Especially when said games don't have extensive single player content. Most people play one or two online games at a time and play single player the rest.
With PUBG, Fortnite, Overwatch, CoD, Monster Hunter and so on, you have more competition. Just look at Lawbreakers... Failed because of the competition.
If DFFNT had stuck with it's roots, more fans and probably others would have picked it up. I'm a FF fan, but I just feel the IP has slipped so far from it's initial foundation that I no longer have faith in SE to deliver an immersive, long lasting experience anymore.