Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Square Enix video game franchises/archive1


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The list was promoted by Giants2008 21:06, 18 October 2015.

List of Square Enix video game franchises

 * Nominator(s):  Pres N  03:50, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

Hey all, video game list time rather than another sci-fi/fantasy awards list. This one's a bit unique- most game companies out there can't support a list composed of just the franchises they develop/publish, rather than the games, but Square Enix is a unique beast. And that's reflected in this list: the franchises are divided up between franchises developed by Square Enix (or formerly Square/Enix), those developed by companies that they've bought (like Eidos Interactive and Taito), and those that any of those parts published but didn't develop. Except that's a simplification- what do you call a franchise that was published by Eidos, who then bought the developer, and then more games were developed after Square Enix then bought Eidos? (Deus Ex) Or a franchise developed by an external company but published by Eidos, where Eidos owned the franchise rights, only to sell them off to the original developer? (Carmaggedon) And that's ignoring franchises where Taito publishes a manga, which then has an anime, and then has spinoff games- I've elided those, for all our sanities. Those will be in another list when I feel like shooting myself via google searches again. The point is that this list is an approximation of something we can't know for sure- what franchises does Square Enix actually own the rights to, as oppose to exclusive publishing rights to, as opposed to just having happened to have published every game in the series. Since we can't know, this list doesn't answer that question, but instead covers all franchises that Square Enix develops or publishes, past or present.

Those of you who don't spend time in video game articles won't realize how much of a surprise the "sales" column is: getting sales numbers in video game land, unlike movies and music, is like pulling teeth from a rhinoceros who only speaks Japanese- it's all scattered non-English sources that you have to dig for and pull together to get a number that even remotely approximates reality. If a franchise here is missing sales data, no sources exist anywhere that I could find for that data. Before ending this nomination, I'd like to thank, who created the initial list and the first (slightly premature) nomination a month ago- I would never have willingly subjected myself to making this list, but they made it happen. Thanks all for reviewing! -- Pres N  03:50, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Drive-by comment
 * I'll be back later. But please look at reference 87 that has an error message (at least what I see) "External link in |title= (help)". — Maile  (talk) 17:59, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm back. Gaming is not my area of knowledge, so I'll say this looks good as far as what I can see.  Except for WP:DTT - I don't see  scope="col" and scope="row", and that seems to be stressed on FLC reviews. — Maile  (talk) 19:28, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed the reference error, seemed to confuse the wikilink with an external link. Also put in row/col scopes- knew I was forgetting something. -- Pres N  19:59, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Support - Happy to give you my support. — Maile (talk) 20:03, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Support First of all I would like to express my admiration for your efforts in sourcing the list. I have only a couple of suggestions:
 * You should format reference 87.
 * In note 1 I would suggest to specify as of when are the most recent numbers: "Sales numbers are based on the most recent available sourced numbers as of .......; actual total sales numbers...". --Gligan (talk) 18:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Did both, though I'm on the fence about the "as of" bit. -- Pres N  20:00, 3 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Support, vast improvement on the previous. All of my concerns from that one have been met. --Golbez (talk) 18:18, 15 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close.  Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the featured list candidates template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through.  Giants2008  ( Talk ) 21:25, 18 October 2015 (UTC)


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