While it's the worst news site I've ever laid eyes on, Kotaku is claiming Versus 13 has been silently canned. While I'll leave it as rumor til I hear it from the horse's mouth, it wouldn't surprise me either. They claim it was silently canned to prevent stock plummets, it was made within recent weeks, and it's decision has saddened the Square Enix team.

It's bad because it would tarnish SquareEnix's name even more. It's also apparently the same engine KH3 will be on, so that may be scrapped for now as well.

It however make sense because it's got Duke Nukem Forever'itis. Which means it's been in production so long that it's doomed to fail. As the longer a game is worked on, the more expectations for perfection that will never be met.

What do you all think? Seen it coming? Or waiting for the horse's mouth? Hopefully they wont wait for September's event to respond to questions. It could still be that this is it's move to being called FF15.

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i was expecting this sooner or later, it has been 6 years since they announce it a little did we know about the details such as gameplay, although im not happy about this im not sad either, if this is indeed true square can now focus on a new FF title such as FF XV, and more importantly KH3

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(July 20, 2012 09:57:11 AM)Roxas21691 Wrote:  i was expecting this sooner or later, it has been 6 years since they announce it a little did we know about the details such as gameplay, although im not happy about this im not sad either, if this is indeed true square can now focus on a new FF title such as FF XV, and more importantly KH3

Are you concerned that KH3 may be further delayed being as the engines are supposed to be the same?

What bothers me more is how much money they have essentially poured into this title, for it to not merit them anything. It could explain the milking of FF13 into 13-2 and 13-3.

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Thats extremely interesting. One thing that hurt Square from the beginning is that I think they announced the game way to early before they were even really in full production and then it went towards the backburner. They shouldnt have announced it until they went under full development and had a set or potential release date. But because they announced it so early expectations sky rocketed and they were never met. Hopefully they dont scrap the whole engine causing KH3 to be delayed any further. But if they do Square could be digging there own grave

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If it's true I am looking forward to the inevitable backlash from the fans.

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Yeah, fans will be so upset it's unimaginable. I'm upset right now because this game took the top spot in my "most anticipated games". This better not be true! Noctis looks so awesome! And it's a Nomura game ! I love his games and ideas!

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(July 20, 2012 10:09:55 AM)Zeruel Wrote:  Are you concerned that KH3 may be further delayed being as the engines are supposed to be the same?

no, Nomura said that as long as he is working on Versus, he cant start working on KH3, this had a negative effect in the KH series, BBS, Days and Coded were good games, and answered a lot of questions, but DDD and possibly BBS volume 2 are just dragging the series, fans want KH3, if this news are indeed true, Nomura and his team can now focus on KH3, i know they wasted a lot of money on Versus, but at least they learned from their mistakes and maybe they can adapt some things from versus in KH3 or other titles

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if this is indeed true, this is the same thing I've been saying they probably did for months. Sad to see it go, but maybe it will return. Also, lets hope that if they do officially announce it being cancelled, they don't do something stupid like blame the fans.

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I was looking forward to Versus more than XIII from the beginning so I'll be pretty bummed if it never comes to fruition. If it does change to XV I wouldn't really mind, though I think unlikely since that was just a joke, right?
If the game is canceled then I'll take that as proof that Square learned a lesson about game PR and look for them to apply it in the future, but I'll be really sad that Versus is the price they paid to gain that understanding of how the industry works these days.

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Quote:Final Fantasy Versus XIII, a game which has been in development for over six years, could be cancelled. There is no official news to confirm this yet, but it looks likely.

Full Story: Final Fantasy Versus XIII Might Be Cancelled

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