Square Enix is ran by dumb fucks in suits who basically want free money. They want cheap games to make a fuckton of cash, which leads to troubled development and mind blowing decisions to try and recoup costs.There is something surreal about how SE keeps releasing these weird low/mid budget games where everyone can tell they're going to be mediocre/bombs and they try to salvage them in the weirdest ways, like with demos, high budget CG cutscenes (Balan Wonderworld), callbacks to the Metal Gear series (Left Alive)
And then they fuck up the most important part: releasing it at the highes price possible. How, how is Babylon's Fall 70 euros. And with a "Digital Deluxe" edition at 110 euros! With that money I could buy 2 Elden Rings. Are they so desperate to make back the game's budget? But then why not just, I don't know, don't go overblown with the budget
The games published by Squeenix that turn out to be great are more often than not passion projects spearheaded by actual designers that the execs never cared about in the first place.