| c0rd said: @zexen_lowe: Okay, so for you the addition of Enix just wasn't able to make up for what Square had lost. Makes sense. @Zen: Many had mixed opinions on FFXII - it wasn't anything like a normal FF, it's almost like a spinoff like FFTactics was "forced" onto the fans of the main series. People felt jipped by it, so naturally they've lost some confidence in the franchise. I'm not saying it was a bad game, but it's lacking the features that make the FF franchise so popular. TWEWY is amazing, no doubt, but the KH team is a given. I haven't played Crisis Core, but FFIV, while great, is still a remake. Either way, both games are feeding off the old games' success (FF4 and FF7). Look at how many FFXII and FFXIII games they're releasing. It's like they're not confident in anything else making sales, so they've gotta put name recognition on it. It all boils down to this: they're struggling with creating new IP's, and it's taking them forever to come out with the new iterations for their main ones. KH3 is starting to look like 2011 at the earliest. The last traditional, main Final Fantasy, FFX, came out at the end of 2001. It will have taken them at least 8 years to release their newest installment. I still look forward to their releases, and I'd agree people exaggerate the extent of their "decline," but they're definitely not what they once were. This pretty much sums up what I dislike about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Enix#Business_model (use the references if you dislike wiki) It sounds like they're going for one big hit, and once it happens, they'll whore out the franchise's success. I don't want a Secret of Mana or Chrono Trigger success turned into a movie, anime, manga, or spinoffs. Just deliver us more new games to play, damnit! |
That business model is disgusting but is obviously a result of sony's fall. Last gen, the Jackpot platform was the ps2, no questions asked. And the people who buy the whored-out spin-offs are the biggest problem. I hate Wada as well. He seems to only care about money not reputation or quality.
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It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
