aka. HOW ANOTHER COMPANY MANAGES TO HURT SQUEENIX'S MOBILE GOLDEN GOOSE
>Of all the mobile games under Square Enix, only one is really bringing money, and that one is Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
>Ran for three years on fumes and glitches, with people still playing it because the alternatives are either pay2play, too young or have prereqs few people are willing to pull out for a mobage
>Because the game is co-made by Gumi, known for their scams with Battle Frontier and Alchemist Code. Anyone knowing their name knows how well this will go in advance
However, when code is badly written, chaos tends to ensue in epic ways
>Game is approaching fast its third birthday
>At the same moment, Google asks for games on the Play Store to be 64bit compliant for August, since they're dropping 32bit support in August 2021
>New update for FFBE
>Which completely breaks the game for every 32bit player, every emulator player and some 64bit players
>At best, you could connect, do summons and send gifts to friends. At worst (and what is the case for most people), you're stuck in a loop of "150mb download -> error -> back to home menu"
>People ask to the Community Manager
>Oh wait, Gumi fired it alongside the whole EU branch weeks ago
>People directly ask Gumi
>"lel, buy a new phone, don't you all have 64bit phones already ?"
>First day pass, we're onto the first day of anniversary gifts
>New update roll, emulators can pass, but nothing changes otherwise
>People get angry, try to get support's help, nothing, no word, no answer
>"lel, support service don't work on weekends"
>Some people get sidetracked with the anniversary gifts and the use of Parallel Space to circumvent the glitch, but most complain
>Another day pass
>Enter the anniversary livestream
>They address the issue, "we're working hard yadda yadda compensations yadda yadda"
>The livestream begins
>They actually nerfed the gifts given for the JP equivalent
>"lel, global version is a different game"
>People have had it enough
>Begin complaining to Google, to Apple and to Amazon
>Amazon looks onto the game's state, considers it unplayable and offers 100% refunds for players
>Some players already accepted the refunding, recovering each around 2000$ of refunds
>Money that is siphoned of both Gumi and Square Enix's account
And that's where people are. I can't confirm much more since I'm not playing the game (thanks god), but there's apparently plenty of discussion on the game's reddit, while refundings' proof are coming from FB and GayFAGS players. All it needs now is a hacker's intervention to inject crazy amounts of items and pseudo-money, lapis for that game, into the games.
And that's how Square Enix's money is hurt, for choosing one of the worst mobile companies ever at the helm of their flagship licence's most profitable mobage. Feel free to dance and to spit on the grave, for this is the future they chose.