Why do people love to hate Final Fantasy ?

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hatmoza 2.0 said:

Its sales are always monstrous yet alot of people seem to hate it with a passion. 

 

People are absolutely correct that its success has a great deal to do with it.

In my case, it represents the aspects of gaming I'd rather not see: the game has less emphasis on gameplay (they tweak it each time, but the fundamentals of the game are rudimentary) with more focus on story and graphics.

My personal interests are about 5% Graphics/Story and 95% Gameplay. Which is to say: I don't like where Final Fantasy takes gaming.

Luckily for me, virtually everything in this genre has died and/or sells much worse than it used to outside of Final Fantasy, so I dobut it's going to be having much affect these days.