I mean... i have no time to even finish the demo. How many did not bother finishing it? Or realized it's not for them? A big demo like this, with 10 hours of content, might hurt sales more than it helps.
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In light of Dragon Quest XI S's poor sales, I'd like to see the Western DQ fanbase get loud and remind Square that we love the franchise.
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It hit the Switch in an incredibly congested month, but the demo revealed what was pretty much a backwards looking jRPG. That killed me off on it.
I feel like DQXI on PC, PS4 + 3DS along with DQXIS were successful projects overall. Sure like the vast majority of that success was because of domestic sales but that's not unexpected or even disappointing, each version has done well enough there in context.
The obvious thing that needs to improve for 12 is a simultaneous worldwide launch that gets rid of needless bickering and holding off from buying one version for a year to wait for a different version. There's no evidence that the multitude of versions really helped XI, at least globally. Especially when one didn't even release internationally.
Just release DQXII multiplatform, global launch and it's already more likeable there.
The obvious thing that needs to improve for 12 is a simultaneous worldwide launch that gets rid of needless bickering and holding off from buying one version for a year to wait for a different version. There's no evidence that the multitude of versions really helped XI, at least globally. Especially when one didn't even release internationally.
Just release DQXII multiplatform, global launch and it's already more likeable there.
It all depends. Square never ruled it out which is unusual if there were contracts disallowing it permanently.
they had a lot of difficulties porting it to switch because of the engine.
All of this.
Though I don't think this will happen until Sugiyama dies.
Honestly, so much of the series is being held back because of that miser.
I like Dragon Quest, and I'm enjoying playing 3 on my phone right now, but 11S is here at a time when too many other Nintendo games are out, and I have too much to do. Here's hoping there's a drought between Animal Crossing and Zelda BotW 2, so I can make room for it, because I'm sold on 11S otherwise.
DQXI is such a great game. Seriously, even if you've never played DQ, if you're a fan of SNES RPGs like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6, or even just Akira Toriyama's character designs from Chrono Trigger and Dragon Ball, you'll love it.
Did Walmart ever even sell this game in America? I was at two Walmart's in my area and they never sold this game and never even had a spot for it in the case....
this is me, salty about the whole situation.
i bought and almost finished it on PS4 before they announced the super-special-ultra-complete Switch version.
i felt burned. no way am i going to double-dip.
People keep talking about how horrible the sales were for this game. And how it bombed. I actually believe that's inaccurate. I was watching it stay in the top ten on the eshop for at least three weeks of not more. Number five or six to be exact. I believe the digital version did better than anyone is expecting.
Dragon Quest has been made with Japan in mind for years. Dragon Quest XI S and XI in general won't change anything.
I don't think the sales for this game were that surprising for Square. It's sold very well in Japan and will likely clear over 1 million WW, which is great for a full priced port of a JRPG (a genre with notoriously poor legs)
I don't think the sales for this game were that surprising for Square. It's sold very well in Japan and will likely clear over 1 million WW, which is great for a full priced port of a JRPG (a genre with notoriously poor legs)
Yep, but they also should have patched the PS4/PC version to have the same added features as the S (I dont believe it has).
No matter what, it was shit for Switch players to get it so late and it was shit for PS4/PC players to not get the added things.
I double dipped because I loved the game but this is seriously on Square for shitty decision making ... again.
Loved the game, and I almost double dipped to play the game in the retro graphics but that just isn't enough to get me to pay the full amount for it twice. Once it's cheaper in a couple of years I will buy.
As fans we should be spreading word of mouth to other gamers if you feel DQ xi is worth talking about.
Unfortunately, the way of the world is such that the only vote that counts is one made with the wallet. There is clearly a rabid fanbase for the series, but not the financial presence necessary for the games to flourish in the West. Then again, eventually Yakuza crossed the ocean, so there is always hope. More power to you.
I played it till the credit but I nope out of Act 3, which is post game, because of the Time Travel nonsense that would render act 2 completely pointless and undo all the character growth that occurred in act 2.
I love jrpgs.
I tried with this series. I really did. I bought xi. But it sucks.
I put 20 hours with it and felt like I played enough for a lifetime.
The story wasn't interesting.
The main character not talking was a turn off.
The combat was extremely 1 note. Felt like something come out of Rpg maker.
I DESPISE enemies being in "groups" in battle.
Beautiful graphics. I'll give it that much.
If you love it, then great. But I'll never buy another dq game if it's essentially the same thing.
I tried with this series. I really did. I bought xi. But it sucks.
I put 20 hours with it and felt like I played enough for a lifetime.
The story wasn't interesting.
The main character not talking was a turn off.
The combat was extremely 1 note. Felt like something come out of Rpg maker.
I DESPISE enemies being in "groups" in battle.
Beautiful graphics. I'll give it that much.
If you love it, then great. But I'll never buy another dq game if it's essentially the same thing.
It's maybe presumptuous to say it "bombed." We don't know what its sales were like exactly, but it charted decently in the eShop. It wasn't a hit, but it released in a busy period.
Whether it performed to expectations or not, who knows. Square Enix's can sometimes be lofty, while Nintendo's are more realistic.
But yeah, safe to say Dragon Quest will never break out in the West if Nintendo's marketing couldn't do it.
Whether it performed to expectations or not, who knows. Square Enix's can sometimes be lofty, while Nintendo's are more realistic.
But yeah, safe to say Dragon Quest will never break out in the West if Nintendo's marketing couldn't do it.
I felt just the same. I was actually enjoying on PS4 and was really near the end, but I felt a little burned and took a break to play other things. Then the release of the better SW version just soured the whole thing.
I really don't know if I'll ever go back and finish it.
Dragon Quest has always been a hard sell for me, while the games aren't bad at all, they don't pull me in like other games. Dragon Quest XI is the first since VIII that made me want to try to get into the series again, but I'm not buying a worse version. I don't have a Switch, but if I did, I would still have to choose between content(on Switch) and resolution/frame rate(PC). It is like how Atlus decided to released the original Catherine on PC but not Full Body, I'm not interested.
Maybe they should add the new content to the PS4/PC versions and show that they appreciate those audiences.
Truth.
I think DQXI would have been an deal Switch game, but I already got the platinum on PS4 and it's a game that, while I adored it, I have no intention of ever revisiting.
It's such a LONG game, too. Some games it kind of makes sense to just re-buy and blaze through again. But XI is so damn long and the pacing is so inconsistent I just can't imagine a lot of people wanting to pay full price again for the chance to do it all again.
With all the versions together the game probably did well enough to still bring series to the west.
What they (maybe) will do is pull a Atlus and ask $60 again for the improved version.
People were saying out loud in this site that the PS4 version bombed when it got released. So I don't get this sarcasm?
Yup, I have it on PS4, even though it sucks I won't ever get the faster battle speed in the Switch version oh well.
The only thing I can see them doing is re-releasing it on PC-PS4 with the S content. Tbh I doubt that even this will happen anyway.
They'd get the same reaction that they seem to have gotten on Switch without a reasonable option like a free update or DLC like FFXV got with the Royal Edition.
I wouldn't be surprised, they did re-release FFX and FF XII for Xbox and Switch at full price. I know it's not exactly the same situation since those plataform didn't get the games before but still... you could buy the PS4 or PC versions for less than half of the price.
With less content. I haven't seen word that FFVII on PS4 has gotten that music bug fixed after every other version has been fixed.
Yeah, they never fixed the music patch on the PS4 version, but they did fixed FF IX after it which makes even less sense.
I did see an update for FFVII yesterday, but the note suggests it was to fix a bug in the Golden Saucer.
Why would you buy the game three different times on three different platforms? Sorry I'm not being weird I just don't understand the logic that's all. Is it to support the developer? I certainly couldn't play through the game more than once even though I loved it
