In 2024, as a result of not reaching their sales goals, Square Enix announced that they could no longer afford to have games exclusive. Of course, this would mean the Final Fantasy mainline games would return to the Xbox ecosystem. At face value, it makes sense. More potential customers means more potential sales. But context is everything. So for perspective, we need to look at why the franchise originally left the Xbox ecosystem in the first place.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
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..more likely they see the xbox as just not worthy anymore.
Let's wait to see how ff7 remake sells on switch 2 before drawing that conclusion.
I believe its more xbox players have a expectation of the game to be on gamepass.
Same as helldivers 2 I took a wander over to the xbox subreddit and saw a disturbing amount of people lissed off that the game would cost $40 and wouldn't be included in gamepass
A bit late as obviously the ps5 got most of the sales. Not to mention that ff7 rebirth arriving a short while after ff16. So people simply purchased ps5 for final fantasy (me!) sooner than they otherwise would’ve. It was a pretty good year for me as I really enjoyed both games.
Squareenix has the data for their other RPGs on the Xbox, so they probably have a good idea of what to expect. Maybe around 100k? It sold pretty bad on PC which is a shame.
What Square was thinking? There is nobody on xbox and the only left there don't buy games.
And there are surprised?