I noticed the TC hasn't responded yet lol.
And I hate to be the one to tell you this, but this happens with many franchises.
Mario, Zelda, SSB, Halo, LBP, GTA, all the same, definitely NOT JUST FF.
Some reasons are the fanboys of those certain series (whether it be FF or some other series like the ones I just named) tend to speak out a lot and make it sound like the best thing ever since sliced bread.
And of course as some have already said, it's "cool" to hate something that's popular. I remember when SMG got all it's spectacular ratings, all the loudmouth idiots popped up like mushrooms and just continually bashed it (yet most of the didn't even play it just due to their blind hate). Same with GTA IV (although I will admit I was apart of that, and although I thought it was good, I didn't think that the scores most review sites gave it were justified).
I don't hate FF, and my favourite is either III or X, but one of the reasons why I get provoked to say bad stuff about it is like I said in the first paragraph: the fanboys. I've seen lots of them say "the only real RPG is FF," and idiotic stuff like that just pisses me off.
My 2 cents.
