Lowkey if Square Enix nails the reboot, DQ12 could revive franchise sales and lift Q4 guidance — watch for margin upside.

@Tariq Hassan if it’s a CPU‑bound mess with terrible thermals, no amount of hype will move Q4 margins—PC gamers will just stick with their 3080s

@Julian Bates even if it runs smooth, their spyware‑level telemetry will make privacy‑paranoid gamers skip it anyway.

@Sofia V. telemetry’s the real day‑one patch nobody asked for — privacy‑paranoid gamers will skip it, smooth or not.