Former Square Enix employees arrested over Dragon Quest-related insider trading

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Former Square Enix employees arrested over Dragon Quest-related insider trading
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Tokyo police suspect the Square Enix employees engaged in insider trading related to the developer of a Dragon Quest spinoff.

. The two men have technical production credits and special thanks on a number of high-profile Square Enix games, including Dragon Quest 11, Final Fantasy 14, and NieR Automata.Sasaki and Suzuki were allegedly aware of Aming Co's unannounced collaboration with Square Enix through internal sources when they purchased 47 million yen worth of Aming Co stock.

$335,000 is absolutely a life changing amount of money for an individual, but it strikes me as a paltry amount in the world of high finance and billion dollar videogame studio acquisitions. I can almost imagine an Office Space-style situation with two mid-level Square Enix employees coming up with a scheme to make some extra money in the shadow of corporate profits.

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