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Shinra Technologies (Square Enix cloud-based company) has been dissolved

SolVanderlyn

SolVanderlyn

Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
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threelights

Member
That's not the streaming service guys, that's the cloud stuff. They never released anything, just had some tech demos...

It has nothing to do with FFXIII on mobile...
 
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KoopaTheCasual

Junior Member
Kagari said:
Their other cloud streaming thing is also dead, DiveIn or whatever it was called.
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Seems like they're consolidating and trying to streamline operations? Hopefully they don't ditch Collective. That's a really great concept, and (last I checked) had great community support.
 
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wmlk

Member
FFVII Remake gets announced.

Bombing Mission trailer less than a month ago.

Coincidence? I think not.
 
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_Ryo_

Member
I'm actually relieved about this tbqh. The thought of cloud only online gaming with no offline is horrifying to me, and this probably suggests that FFVIIR won't be an always online open world thing.
 
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KoopaTheCasual

Junior Member
_Ryo_ said:
I'm actually relieved about this tbqh. The thought of cloud only online gaming with no offline is horrifying to me, and this probably suggests that FFVIIR won't be an always online open world thing.
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I mean... there was absolutely nothing to suggest that in the first place.
 
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hamchan

Member
Honestly didn't seem worth it just to sell mobile games. Cloud streaming will happen eventually but I think it's better to leave it up to Sony, Microsoft and Valve to make those investments.
 
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Inuhanyou

Believes Dragon Quest is a franchise managed by Sony
Glad to hear it.

From the beginning of its formation, i had no idea what the hell Wada was doing heading up such a weird pet project like that. "Distributing calculations on the cloud"? Why the hell would that make any sense over a local solution which is going to be 100% more effective all the time?

No wonder he is no longer Prez, but after the 7th gen under his leadership, that goes without saying.
 
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Ravidrath

Member
You'd think after wasting millions on Crystal Tools and Luminous, Square would've finally stopped trying to roll their own tech.

But, nope - they had to do it again, and this time it's online tech! Something they have almost zero experience with!

And just like when they swallowed their pride and put their games on Unreal, they'll do the same with Amazon.
 
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udivision

Member
Ravidrath said:
You'd think after wasting millions on Crystal Tools and Luminous, Square would've finally stopped trying to roll their own tech.

But, nope - they had to do it again, and this time it's online tech! Something they have almost zero experience with!

And just like when they swallowed their pride and put their games on Unreal, they'll do the same with Amazon.
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They should play it safe and release a 200 million dollar movie and go after that sweet Star Wars money.
 
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duckroll

Member
Ravidrath said:
You'd think after wasting millions on Crystal Tools and Luminous, Square would've finally stopped trying to roll their own tech.

But, nope - they had to do it again, and this time it's online tech! Something they have almost zero experience with!

And just like when they swallowed their pride and put their games on Unreal, they'll do the same with Amazon.
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Hey man that's not true. They have tons of experience with the amazing online platform known as PlayOnline. Most people like to talk about Crystal Tools or Luminous, but the truth is, the crazy chase for their own branded little thing started from Sakaguchi's era. I still remember that conference where they announced FFIX, X, XI or something at the same time, and was pushing how PlayOnline would be this amazing online portal which all their games from PS2 onwards would connect to, and they showed off early FFX concept ideas of how it would use PlayOnline in the menus.

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Lol.
 
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Brad Grenz

Member
Shinra was always a crazy solution in search of a problem no one actually had. Not surprised, except that it lasted as long as it did.
 
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Xenus

Member
duckroll said:
Hey man that's not true. They have tons of experience with the amazing online platform known as PlayOnline. Most people like to talk about Crystal Tools or Luminous, but the truth is, the crazy chase for their own branded little thing started from Sakaguchi's era. I still remember that conference where they announced FFIX, X, XI or something at the same time, and was pushing how PlayOnline would be this amazing online portal which all their games from PS2 onwards would connect to, and they showed off early FFX concept ideas of how it would use PlayOnline in the menus.

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Lol.
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And how Tidus had black hair.....
 
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Nirolak

Mrgrgr
duckroll said:
Hey man that's not true. They have tons of experience with the amazing online platform known as PlayOnline. Most people like to talk about Crystal Tools or Luminous, but the truth is, the crazy chase for their own branded little thing started from Sakaguchi's era. I still remember that conference where they announced FFIX, X, XI or something at the same time, and was pushing how PlayOnline would be this amazing online portal which all their games from PS2 onwards would connect to, and they showed off early FFX concept ideas of how it would use PlayOnline in the menus.

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Lol.
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Don't worry, between these two they had highly successful services like Core Online and Dive-In.
 
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TheSeks

Blinded by the luminous glory that is David Bowie's physical manifestation.
Kagari said:
Edit: Press release - http://www.hd.square-enix.com/eng/news/pdf/20160106_01en.pdf
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PDF said:
STI, as a cloud platform operator, has been trying to raise funds necessary for further business operations from third party investors. However, STI has found no prospective investors at this point, and therefore has to discontinue its business.
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Basically, if I'm reading right, Square stopped giving them money when it was clear there was no investor wanting to get on cloud-based streaming/gaming. Makes sense, that tech still is not ready for prime-time and I don't blame investors for being gun-shy on that.

Anuson.Phan said:
The cloud was a big tag line in the beginning of this Gen then it slowing disappeared. Wonder what happened.
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Buzzword that's been misused in some cases. In others things that aren't ready for the times, and others where they're already here.
 
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HappehLemons

Member
Glad these services aren't taking off to be honest. Can't get behind this technology and I feel like the wasted resources that were put into this and on PS4s PS3 game streaming are the stopping better more in demand features/products from coming out.
 
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