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well thats what a bucket full of money does
money>loyalty



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Don't worry you will still get kingdom hearts as an exclusive.



@brute

I agree.



ctk495 said:
Don't worry you will still get kingdom hearts as an exclusive.

I wouldn't count on that.

 



steven787 said:
Kasz216 said:
Onyxmeth said:

It's actually the other way around. Square did a lot of good thing for Sony, like making the PS1 a success by bringing Final Fantasy VII to it. Cloud Strife was the poster child of the Playstation brand during that era, even over Sony's own mascot Crash Bandicoot.

Though FF7 would of just been another FF game had Sony not put it at the forefront of it's 100's of millions of dollars marketing campaign.

Hell, Square didn't even want to publish FF7 outside of Japan until Sony promised them all the money.

Both sides benefited, neither side gave the other "charity" so people should just grow up and realize buisness is buisness.

 

 

Even before FFVII, there was no such thing as just another FF game. The internet wasn't as big yet, but FFVI was on the cover of every (non-Sega) U.S. gaming mag, it sold millions of copies at $69.99 in the US.

PS1 would not have won Japan, then the world, without FFVII (and Ridge Racer). Crash Bandicoot was a very small piece of the puzzle; he didn't sell systems - he just showed gamers that PS1 would have platformers too.

Do you have a link for that bit about not exporting FFVII? I am pretty VII was designed specifically to appeal to western gamers more; that it why they no longer used Amano for character design.

 

I agree that it's all business.

Off hand? No, but I suppose i could dig it up if i looked hard enough. It was something i read like... a year ago.

I think in an article about how FF7 was the head of a 100 million pound ad campaign in the UK.



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This E3 has been epic already. Can't wait for tomorrow.

And no, money talks.



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the consumer gave FF great sales not sony



I somehow expected this to happen. FFXIII to Xbox 360.

SE needs sales



lol, and Nintendo was good to Square. They "gave" them amazing sales in Japan.



Heres a petition, and if the think about it, loyalty DOES matter!

Final Fantasy - Remain loyal to your fans! Petition

But this is not just for FF13, its also for all the other spin offs SE have made, and its time to put them back on track, its not just the fact its lost exclusiveness, hell thats just part of it, this petition is not only asking for the exclusiveness back, but the actual series, something has to be done!