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Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN (www.ign.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One big project or multiple smallers ones? What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So basically they shut down their games actively being developed or games like NieR Reincarnation (I am legitimately upset they did not patch it to work offline, that was a great game that died yesterday) just so they could claim a loss. This is likely for tax reasons, if I had to guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I still don't understand how even with a tax write off they make more money than if they actually sold the damn thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From the looks of things, Warner Bros was just the beginning of this practice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, companies have been doing similar practices for ages. Its just they're being more public about it now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.