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Do we like Square Enix?

Japanese video game publisher behind Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, based in Tokyo.

Our score: 5 out of 10. Great games, but repeated Western layoffs and a push to automate QA with AI make us hesitant. We'd hold off for now.

Square Enix is the Tokyo-based publisher behind Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. President Takashi Kiryu led a big shake-up of its overseas operations in late 2025.

In November 2025, reports said it was cutting jobs in the UK, Europe and the US, with up to 140 roles at risk. The aim was to save over 3 billion yen a year and shift development focus to Japan.

The timing looked bad. Around the same time, it said it wanted generative AI to handle 70% of QA and debugging by the end of 2027. Reports differ on whether the two were linked.

On security, its worst-known trouble is old. In December 2011 it took its Members service offline after an intrusion that may have exposed about 1.8 million accounts. That's why we land in the middle.

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