Ready for another Origin or Uplay? Based on a recently released financial report, some believe the Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider publisher is delving deeper into the digital distribution game with their own storefront. I don’t think Square Enix would actually pull their games from Steam, but they could make you run a launcher on top of everything.



Square Enix plans to use its original IPs and backward compatible content to pursue “games as a service” initiatives in an effort to supplement its lucrative digital sales. Like most publishers in the games industry, Square Enix makes most of its earnings via digital sales in the form of full game downloads, in-game purchases, and other live service content across consoles, PC, and mobile. In its Fiscal Year 2017 earnings report, the Japanese games publisher says it will launch a “Square Enix digital sales global website” that will “create a library of catalog titles and eliminate backward compatibility issues.”


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