So disappointing

[Sage Pirotess]

Game has been live for 24× hours and not even 1 page of topics or discussion. And here someone thought this would sell as well as final fantasy 7.

[Kapika96]

Literally never knew it existed until just now. What do you expect when they don't bother actually marketing their game?

[Durgha]

There was zero marketing. I was going through Steam queues a few days ago and never even got shown this title. I only heard that Fantasian was getting a PC release by reading an related thread on a different board.

[semp]

Did you REALLY expect Square, as a publisher, to actually promote a turn based rpg?
Unless it's dragon quest, not happening.
Wait until they use this failure to justify ff17 being a grand theft auto clone.

[FafnirChaos]

Who cares if people didn't buy it - We get to enjoy it - I mean if it doesn't sell and Sakaguchi retires because of it- at least we get to enjoy one of his final projects.

How many years has it been for those who didn't own a Xbox or Apple device - This is nice - and I really did miss this.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by semp:

Did you REALLY expect Square, as a publisher, to actually promote a turn based rpg?
Unless it's dragon quest, not happening.
Wait until they use this failure to justify ff17 being a grand theft auto clone.

Not at all. But there were quite a few threads. Se YouTube and preorders on gmg and such.

So while I didnt expect big sales, typically a game in 24 hours has 2 to 3 pages of people sharing questions or talking about the game.

So yea is weird.

[jchaosmaster]

I agree i just saw it on my new list and looked at the couple of Trailers and think pass. I like they are going back to the older character walking on more picture style system. But i saw the battle system and thought Wow.... well you're basic and pass. Honestly I still think it's sad FFX was peak turn base battle. I mean i saw no combo, no really interesting strategy, no modern flare. I do like this game is 50$ i hate this 50$ is the modern 30$ which honestly is what this game looks like. By that i don't mean the game looks bad. The game just honestly looks like someone you would see on a handheld like 3ds/Vita.

[Whx]

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Originally posted by semp:

Did you REALLY expect Square, as a publisher, to actually promote a turn based rpg?
Unless it's dragon quest, not happening.
Wait until they use this failure to justify ff17 being a grand theft auto clone.

Not at all. But there were quite a few threads. Se YouTube and preorders on gmg and such.

So while I didnt expect big sales, typically a game in 24 hours has 2 to 3 pages of people sharing questions or talking about the game.

So yea is weird.

game has 0 marketing going for it, and not only that, you have some people attacking it for being a mobile game. ironically the only platform it might sell well on is nintendo switch because they at least bothered to show it on their live stream. it's not really squinx's game, they just help publish it, so they have 0 faith in it and dont even bother advertise it whatsoever. i dont even think it was featured on steam page on release, which their other games are because they pay steam for that... so yeah what you see now is the diehard fans who dug the information on their own through one way or another. it has a mere 495 peak concurrent players and has had even less than that yesterday but is basically peaking around 300-500 atm.

[Rinaldus]

Originally posted by semp:

Did you REALLY expect Square, as a publisher, to actually promote a turn based rpg?
Unless it's dragon quest, not happening.
Wait until they use this failure to justify ff17 being a grand theft auto clone.

Holy crap, a GTA set in a Final Fantasy world would be amazing, lmao

[MJAndre]

Originally posted by Kapika96:

Literally never knew it existed until just now. What do you expect when they don't bother actually marketing their game?

They've been marketing and posting about it for MONTHS. Maybe climb out from under the rock..? Instagram, SE newsletters.. There's been plenty of posts.
Personal ignorance is not an excuse. The game has been marketed, you just ignored it.
In fact, when it was first announced to be even happening back during TGS(?), Tokyo Game Show in September-ish, it's BIGGEST NOTED POINT was that it's a turn-based RPG by Sakaguchi and Uematsu. It was VERY widely posted.
You don't have any excuse for not seeing it.

[MJAndre]

Originally posted by Whx:

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Not at all. But there were quite a few threads. Se YouTube and preorders on gmg and such.

So while I didnt expect big sales, typically a game in 24 hours has 2 to 3 pages of people sharing questions or talking about the game.

So yea is weird.

game has 0 marketing going for it, and not only that, you have some people attacking it for being a mobile game. ironically the only platform it might sell well on is nintendo switch because they at least bothered to show it on their live stream. it's not really squinx's game, they just help publish it, so they have 0 faith in it and dont even bother advertise it whatsoever. i dont even think it was featured on steam page on release, which their other games are because they pay steam for that... so yeah what you see now is the diehard fans who dug the information on their own through one way or another. it has a mere 495 peak concurrent players and has had even less than that yesterday but is basically peaking around 300-500 atm.

Sure. "0 marketing". That's why it's been regularly mentioned that FFXIV/FFXVI studio Creative Business Division III was working on this, helped by Naoki Yoshda. That's why all over Instagram and Twitter on the Square Enix and Final Fantasy account pages that were constantly posting about it being a turn-based JRPG from Sakaguchi.

Sure. Zero marketing. No. You just ignored it.

[Durgha]

Originally posted by MJAndre:

Sure. "0 marketing". That's why it's been regularly mentioned that FFXIV/FFXVI studio Creative Business Division III was working on this, helped by Naoki Yoshda. That's why all over Instagram and Twitter on the Square Enix and Final Fantasy account pages that were constantly posting about it being a turn-based JRPG from Sakaguchi.

Sure. Zero marketing. No. You just ignored it.

It's interesting to hear an effort was made. Unfortunately I'm not on twitter anymore so it seems the marketing missed me. If I had known this was coming out sooner I would've told my friends and we could've enjoyed the hype cycle together. I'm on several major gaming forums and follow half a dozen game news influencers, but the Steam release of Fantasian still flew under my radar.

People at SE are likely reading these boards. I'm not trying to say anything negative about their product or marketing strategy. I just want to share feedback that I didn't know this game was coming out, and I'm guessing other potential buyers may not have known either.

[Sage Pirotess]

Originally posted by Whx:

Originally posted by Sage Pirotess:

Not at all. But there were quite a few threads. Se YouTube and preorders on gmg and such.

So while I didnt expect big sales, typically a game in 24 hours has 2 to 3 pages of people sharing questions or talking about the game.

So yea is weird.

game has 0 marketing going for it, and not only that, you have some people attacking it for being a mobile game. ironically the only platform it might sell well on is nintendo switch because they at least bothered to show it on their live stream. it's not really squinx's game, they just help publish it, so they have 0 faith in it and dont even bother advertise it whatsoever. i dont even think it was featured on steam page on release, which their other games are because they pay steam for that... so yeah what you see now is the diehard fans who dug the information on their own through one way or another. it has a mere 495 peak concurrent players and has had even less than that yesterday but is basically peaking around 300-500 atm.

Let's put it this way for those who are slow thinkers to comprehend. Elder scrolls 3. Harness 15 dollars or whatever. It's only 1 microtransaction and cosmetic only.

A decade later, we lost track of cosmetics and microtransaction, even in single player games.

This game, a phone mobile game! 20 to 30 max. Hey let's open the floodgates if mobile trash, ok, or good games, double or tripple the price of the games.

The gamers will feel grateful because, well they can play them on oc at 2 to 3x the cost! And all are older then your child.

[MJAndre]

Originally posted by Durgha:

Originally posted by MJAndre:

Sure. "0 marketing". That's why it's been regularly mentioned that FFXIV/FFXVI studio Creative Business Division III was working on this, helped by Naoki Yoshda. That's why all over Instagram and Twitter on the Square Enix and Final Fantasy account pages that were constantly posting about it being a turn-based JRPG from Sakaguchi.

Sure. Zero marketing. No. You just ignored it.

It's interesting to hear an effort was made. Unfortunately I'm not on twitter anymore so it seems the marketing missed me. If I had known this was coming out sooner I would've told my friends and we could've enjoyed the hype cycle together. I'm on several major gaming forums and follow half a dozen game news influencers, but the Steam release of Fantasian still flew under my radar.

People at SE are likely reading these boards. I'm not trying to say anything negative about their product or marketing strategy. I just want to share feedback that I didn't know this game was coming out, and I'm guessing other potential buyers may not have known either.

It was known by even the Nintendo Switch Direct that it would be same day multiplatform release on Switch, PS5, and Steam. This has been known for MOOOOONTHS.

[AH-1 Cobra]

Originally posted by semp:

Wait until they use this failure to justify ff17 being a grand theft auto clone.

I'd prefer that to Final Fantasy XVI. It would be funny to just walk up to someone and jack their chocobo, just to take it for a joyride while you drive-by random people with an auto-crossbow. Gimme that game, now. I'd love to see the amount of carnage I could inflict in a city with a magitek armor, raise enough hell to get battleships firing their main guns at me to try and stop me.

So yeah, if this mediocre game failing means I get an new mainline Final Fantasy game that's actually worth playing as a result, then YES, PLEASE FAIL.

[Whx]

Originally posted by MJAndre:

Originally posted by Whx:

game has 0 marketing going for it, and not only that, you have some people attacking it for being a mobile game. ironically the only platform it might sell well on is nintendo switch because they at least bothered to show it on their live stream. it's not really squinx's game, they just help publish it, so they have 0 faith in it and dont even bother advertise it whatsoever. i dont even think it was featured on steam page on release, which their other games are because they pay steam for that... so yeah what you see now is the diehard fans who dug the information on their own through one way or another. it has a mere 495 peak concurrent players and has had even less than that yesterday but is basically peaking around 300-500 atm.

Sure. "0 marketing". That's why it's been regularly mentioned that FFXIV/FFXVI studio Creative Business Division III was working on this, helped by Naoki Yoshda. That's why all over Instagram and Twitter on the Square Enix and Final Fantasy account pages that were constantly posting about it being a turn-based JRPG from Sakaguchi.

Sure. Zero marketing. No. You just ignored it.

oh yeah mention it on their twitter or instagram where normal people totally would look because normal people are subbed to squinix twitter and instagram...... wait they aren't. the very least they could have done was feature it on steam main page on release, and even that they didnt do. and i didnt ignore the game, im one of the few people who actually seeks games like the old final fantasty games, and who dug up information about this game even before it was ported to pc, but sadly, im not in the "habit" of followning squinix on twitter nor instagram, and will continue not to do that.