Square-Enix: "It's..natural to grow out of Final Fantasy."

[The Ghost of RubangB]

@Khuutra, I haven't played FF12. I gave up on FF a long time ago, but it sounds like FF12 is so radically different that it really pissed off a lot of the new fans, which makes it sound like I'd enjoy it. But I have fickle tastes when it comes to RPGs, and I'm one of the few who thought The World Ends With You was complete garbage.

@pastro243, I'm not saying good or bad or better or worse. I'm just saying that there is a definite break where they moved to a new target demographic. FF7 with its wacky hairdos and really long cutscenes (and massive marketing push) made more money than any previous FF. So Square kept going in that direction. Not better, not worse, just not for Rubang.

@OP, the main problem is that they claim that it's okay to lose their older fans because they'll bring in younger fans. And... that's not happening. Not counting the online one, FF12 sold the fewest copies of any FF on a Sony console, even though it had the highest potential userbase of any FF game ever made. Even sold less than FFX-2. So they're telling the older fans "It's okay, we don't need you" when they clearly do. Sales are stagnating.