>[From Software] is facing pressure from investors in its parent company Kadokawa to rely more on safe content and sequels to deliver value and improve its recent poor performance. However, President Hidetaka Miyazaki is pushing back, promising to maintain the studio's autonomy to deliver truly valuable games>"Regarding the matter you inquired about, I am aware of all the facts that have been reported. However, we are not in a position to know any further details, and there are many other people involved besides ourselves, so to be honest, it is difficult for us to comment in depth on this matter. Therefore, please understand that this is limited to what I can tell you personally, and it is my opinion, not the company's." said the Elden Ring director to Den Faminico Gamer, who reached out to him for a comment on the matter.>"First of all, I am generally satisfied with the development environment that FromSoftware currently has. I wouldn't say there aren't any areas for improvement, but we are able to freely create the games we want to make without excessive interference," he continued. "And I believe that maintaining such an environment in the future, allowing us to concentrate solely on game development as much as possible, is of utmost importance to both myself and to us at FromSoftware." This development environment is the reason behind their output, Miyazaki-san added.>"Finally, if our users happen to read this message, we want to assure you that we will continue to work harder than ever to create truly valuable games. We hope you will look forward to our upcoming titles, both those already announced and those yet to be announced," the Elden Ring director concluded.https://news.denfaminicogamer.jp/interview/260612ghttps://wccftech.com/elden-ring-bloodborne-developer-fromsoftware-rejects-safer-sequels/If you bought Nightreign, and buy The Duskbloods, you are continuing to put the power in Miyazaki's hands and not Kadokawa. Will you do (You)r part, /v/?
He will cave eventually, they all do, once investors starting putting pressure on you its only a matter of time until they get their way. FromSoft's enshittifcation is now set in stone
>>741081514>Will you do (You)r part, /v/?Of course. If you don't you really don't belong on /v/
>>741081603This will literally figuratively only come to pass if The Duskbloods doesn't sell well. You WILL do your part, right?
He's at the point where he should probably start his own studio. Else he will always be under someone else's will like that.
>>741081514Nonononono it's fucking over. It's fucking over. The next Souls game will have a black king and queen, mark my words.
>>741081514Fucking hack sold out to nintendo and now wants to play the noble man lmao, all his games are the same shit, hell duskbloods is the biggest offender yet with zero originality, all assets are just copy and paste from his previous games
>>741081514>its recent poor performanceWhat poor performance? All their games since Demon's Souls have sold well, is it just that they aren't putting out literally a game a year like the AAA garbage mills?
>>741081664it's not on my platform and i don't want to buy a tablet
>>741081615>>741081664>FROM dependent on me paying for NSO on Switch 2RIP i guess
>>741081750Anon how do you think getting things made works. Sekiro, for instance, only exists because From Software went to Activision and Activision said yes they'll fund it. >>741081782Elden Ring sold 20 million its first year. Investors don't understand anything that isn't money, so they see that line and go>DURRR WHY CAN'T THEY JUST DO THAT AGAIN??Line must always go up. If it doesn't, they pull out their money and just move on. They're parasites.
Oh no. Anyways.
>>741081514>director who has made Demon's Souls seven times goes on about safe content and creativity
>>741081664>switch 2not buying that scam shit
>>741081514>its recent poor performance.What performed poorly? I thought people ate up everything this studio put out.
Reminder that this isn't the first time this happened. The previous time From asked Sony to buy their stock to stop a hostile takeover.
>>741081514but they've been making the same game since demon's souls, the only one that kinda changed the formula was sekiro. also all the themes were stolen from other pieces of media. they don't focus on innovation and creativity in the slightest,
So hecking zased!>makes rollslop again
>>741081615I wipe my ass with Elden Ring discs. I will happily watch the complete and total destruction of Fromsoft. You lost and got raped.
>>741081514Jap companies don't have investors, they're all privately owned/traded.
>>741081926ER doesn't belong to From. It's wholly owned by Bandai Namco. From only got the initial dev costs and a bonus for it's performance. It selling 20 million doesn't mean From profited from it.
>>741081892Megaman was made a million times, ditto Castlevania. Fucking Armored Core. Who cares. >>741081970"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." The Departed (2006) is a remake of a Chinese film. Metal has its origins in blues guitar. Dead Space gets its camera from Resident Evil 4. Don't be silly.
>>741082012Kadokawa owns the majority of From Software, Kadokawa has investors.
>>741081664This isn't my responsibility.
>>741081514I don't like online focused games, so I didn't buy Nightreign, nor will I be buying Duskbloods. Sorry.
>>741082179>KrondorThey don't make them like this anymore.
>Such a massive success it literally kills the companyWhy did you buy it you retard
>>741082236I'm not brown so I don't get this one sorry anon :(
>>741082118This has been debunked
>>741081514>If you buy dogshit slop for goycattle, you will put the power in the hack to keep making dogshit slop for goycattleNo thanks
>>741081514>Chinks fire all the talent they tried to steal like nagoshi and suda because the success of wukong taught them they can make their own games.>They proceed to make jack shit and instantly go back to trying to get FROM to just make elden ring 2 instead.Why are chinks so fucking pathetic?
>>741082016>ER doesn't belong to From. It's wholly owned by Bandai Namco.That hasn't been the case for over two years
>>741081514>its recent poor performancesay what
>>741082395Investors do not understand hard work. They just throw money at things and fire people until a profit is made. The thing is that this works when you have enough money to keep doing this over and over.
>>741082248Literally suffering from success. This would be fine if Fromsoft can just milk ER's success for a decade but it's been 4 years and investors are expecting similar hits.
the only thing from makes that doesn't knock it outta the park is Armored Core, because soulsfags don't want to play from's mecha games they just want more dark souls and dark souls associates like Elden Ring
>>741082407That's the trademark not the ownership of ER. Nightreign is a game under this deal. All the cash ER makes goes to Bandai.
>>741082506ER was never going to have a great followup. Tears of the Kingdom sold less than half of what BOTW made.
>>741081664Duskbloods, like Nightreign is exactly what those investors want. In fact, they were probably behind the decision. It's already over.
>>741081664>$660 plus tip for an unproven 24fps fortnite bloodborneFromShitters...
>>741081514>I make the dogshit games because I want to not because they force me>But they would force to make the same dogshit I am makinglole
>>741082590Aktschually Duskbloods has been in development since 2019, and Nightreign was solely pushed by its director, Ishizaki, because he likes multiplayer games.
>>741082565>>741082628Slow and methodical combat. This is what Dark Souls is all about.
>>741082016>don't own bloodborne>don't own elden ringwhy are they so cucked
>>741081514Can somebody start making Miyazaki versions of those Henry Cavill 40k memes where he protects the lore from bezos?
>>741082087Yes. However you don't see the directors of those games go on moral high horses. Miyazaki 100% huffs his own farts as people keep buying his regurgitated output.From is completely carried by their art people. Elden Ring is lazy and poorly thought out but it's carried heavily by the its aesthetic. Do I need to remind you about how the Chaos could be completely broken if you decided to explore AN OPEN WORLD GAME in the wrong order? It took them fucking months to fix it. Something that could have been avoided if Elden Ring wasn't regurgitated Dark Souls in every aspect of its DNA because it's 2024 and we're still doing NPC invaders.Then you have >>741081879 which is some of the most egregious button reading ever put into a 3D action game. Absolutely no From game has anything close to the AI rubber-banding in Elden Ring. And the reason it's like this is because the actual devs are lazy hacks and the thing they are most concerned about is "the game needs to be le super hard no matter what". That's all they have.
>>741082582Tears "flopped" for a lot of reasons, map reuse is #1, the story retconning IT'S IMMEDIATE PREQUEL AND ACTING LIKE BOTW DIDNT HAPPEN was waaaaay worsefuck nintendo for not EVER doing a proper sequel, I am so sick of disconnected flashback narratives to. It's insulting. I reallt have no idea what they were thinking>dont even get me started on Hyrule undergroundthat shit was made in 8 hours. so fucking shit empty and lazy. I really could write a dissertation on this
>>741082658There's nothing methodical on constantly holding the shield up, spamming rolls whenever someone attacks you, facetanking the fuck ups with the meta STR+VIT build, and poking the boss' anus with your sharp stick for 15 minutes until it dies.
>>741081514Uhh maybe some pressure would be a good thing if nightreign and stoolbloods is Fromsoft unrestrained
>>741082739>However you don't see the directors of those games go on moral high horsesWhat moral high horse? A journalist reached out to Miyazaki inquiring about the recent investor buzz and he responded by saying he likes where his company is right now and then told the people who buy their games that you have nothing to worry about. >From is completely carried by their art people. Elden Ring is lazy and poorly thought out but it's carried heavily by the its aestheticIt's all a collaborative effort nothing is ever one thing you know that and I know that.>Elden RingIs lazy and poorly thought out, yes. Unfortunately it was still great by and large.>"the game needs to be le super hard no matter what". That's all they have.There's also the art, the music, the story, the voice acting, etc. I actually agree with the investors they could have done Elden Ring 2 and fixed everything wrong with Elden Ring.
>>741081514Nightreign was a complete piece of shit, thoughbeit. I don't want Duskbloods. I want a standard Souls game.
>Nightreign is full of nothing but the worst Chinese players ever who play like it's their first video game ever, or Chinese hackers doing 1million damage to bosses because they're dogshit without hacks
So his grand vision is some garbage multiplayer only extractionslop?
>>741083110Should have made the classes dlc for elden ring instead.
sup with the astroturf
>>741081514>If you bought Nightreign, and buy The DuskbloodsI am fundamentally not interested in Duskbloods and none of my friends are interested in Nightreign, so I'm not going to buy a co-op game to play with randoms either. I'll buy their games when they make something that looks cool and that I might like again. I'm really not interested in the PvPvE slop direction they're going into with Duskbloods in particular.
already feel like they went safe as fuck with ER's open world concept, nightreign and duskbloods or whatever the fuck that generic looking shit was called. if they wanted to truly impress me, they would have to do something daring like fully commit to the bronze ages or something with all the limitations that would entail.
>>741083110That's going to be the fate of Duskbloods
Does he even make games anymore or is he in paper pushing mines forever?
Can the investors get them to make Elden Ring 2 or something instead of co-op slop?
>>741082087>Who caresi do, retard.
Rollslop is nothing more than Simon Says. Roll monkey, roll.
>>741081664Shall buy the PC port once it comes out.
>>741083281That's the crux of this to be quite desu. Elden Ring is a very safe game from a company that used to be riskier with its design, like punishing the player for abandoning covenants. If investors can strongarm From Software into making Elden Ring, but with interesting design, then by all means they should put a leash on him. >>741083350Shoo, peasant.
>>741083312He's the CEO. Most of the heavy lifting in ER was done by his junior directors which then went on to work on other projects to prove their worth. Miyazaki has been slowly stepping away pure directorial role since Bloodborne.
>>741081514SOOOOOOO FauCKainG BAAaaAAASEEEED! I love this man so much its unreal.
>>741081664>Extraction shooter rollslop on a dogshit console that's mostly played by literal children and casual gamers What were they thinking genuinely. Remember when dadgamers would get mad about you killing them in Arc Raiders, a pvp game? Yeah Duskbloods would get an entire playerbase of casuals like that
>>741081514Elden Ring was massive hit, and keeps selling well.If anything, From Software's development style is incredibly safe, since they can recycled so much content while giving it a repaint. What the fuck is investors' problem?
>>741083579Growth. Investors for the most part hate stability. They would rather risk crashes if there's a promise of profit margins spiking up really high.
>>741081514If ER is From Software unbound then they need a boardroom to force them to do cool shit again like necessitating a sidequest to undo your half health curse or a library of rotating staircases etc. Raya Lucaria is a fucking travesty. It's 1/3rd a magic academy, 1/3rd a graveyard, and 1/3rd rooftops.
>>741082443>AND THERE AIN'T NO POINT TO THE GAME
>>741081514>Schizo retard dumping his rollslop folderBased.
>>741081514No. Both Nightreign and Duskblood are always online multiplayer garbage. I won't reward that kind of shit with money.
>>741081514Miyazaki is a fucking hack, extremely overrated with zero talent as 90% of his work is a reference to Berserk
Elden ring is soulless. Go back to to a confined interconnected world like the OG dark souls.
>>741081514Elden Ring 2 rushed into productionforced to get shat out buggier and less finished than DaS1
I don't understand why companies don't remain private like Valve.Nothing good can come from people that only seek quick profits at the expense of everything else only to be the first ones to leave once the ship starts sinking.
>>741084749Reported for blatant antisemitism
>>741084930Announcing a report is bannable, fucking newfag lmao, go suck on Netanyahu's shoes
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>Miyazaki-san prs make Elden Ring 2>Miyazaki-san prs make multiplatform games>"no"
>>741081915How is it a scam?
>>741081603>elden ring>nightreign>duskbloodsIf this is FROM at their peak creative freedom I don't think I really give a shit if they go back to needing money. They were already enshittified by elden ring.
