Turn based it must! but a lot faster maybe like ffx-2

who wants ffxv combat?  does anyone realy think that new ff are as good as old?

Depends what you include as new vs old. 13 is all we had last gen, even that was battle with an ATB of sorts.

how old are you people because i remember my grandmother always told me that in the past everything was better? 

well we speaking the era after SNES, when games like grandia, tales and other rpg was flourish and had a new and more inovative battle system, FF on PS one era   still using the old one from SNES era even until FF X, most of people who play a lot of  RPG love Final fantasy  because of Story, graphic, art style, music and CG,  and leveling system but for battle system it always in the midle, when you look and read old review you will find a decent score on how avarage the battle system is.  Especially when they going to updated the graphic on FF7 remake  they have to make battle more cinematic or faster and lead to more of action oriented but i hope they will have both combine between turn based and action, thats why western RPG a head of JRPG because they can satisfied both.

Terrible mindset to have in regards to remakes to be honest. Graphics in my opinion should be the only thing which is enhanced, the gameplay and story should stay intact. If they change to much with this there will be an outrage and in my opinion it'll just be a watered down version of FF7. This is suppose to be a timeless classic, they shouldn't need to change or alter anything to make it fresh except the graphics. All this talk about altering bits of the story and the combat seems like a quick way to anger a lot of the fans.

Maybe the halo community is a little more hardcore than the FF community but any thought of changing CE in the anniversary remake would have been quickly met with a lot of anger.

Keep ATB, but add chains, character placement, and interrupts like in X-2. That's what I want. Then again, if they just keep the regular battle system from the original, I'd be more than fine with that too.

Hopefully
There are decent real time systems but nothing beats good turn based

Modify the battle system and make it similar to Valkyrie Profile 2 and you'll have a winner

Actually there is nothing wrong with altering a few things. After Crisis Core, Dirge of Cerberus,  and Advent Children,  there can definitely be additions in the story to tie everything in. As for battle system, we've even those wearing the nostalgia goggles,  using a battle system like tri ace's Valkyrie Profile 2 would work wonders.