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FinalEvangelion on 18 November 2007
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ClaudeLv250 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
ClaudeLv250 said:
Final Fantasy already had a fanbase and several games in the US before the FF7 explosion. Mistwalker and Lost Odyssey, not so much. It's going to take more than just "lol marketing" to make the splash people want this game to make.

Calling a $100 million dollar marketing blitz (more than most movies today get) "lol marketing" just shows your ignorance, not to mention the fact that many of FFVII's fans had never played RPGs before, so your previous fanbase comments are just outright false in the success of FFVII.

I'm sorry but I don't see a $100 marketing blitz for Lost Odyessey, that's why it's "lol marketing," which shows just how ignorant YOU are. For Lost Odyssey to be the phenomenom the people in this thread desperately want it's going to need Halo 3-level marketing. I don't know about you but I've yet to see Lost Odyssey Mountain Dew.

And pretending like 3 FF's weren't released prior to FFVII is not only false, it's moronic. Square even renamed the first Mana and first 3 SaGa games to Final Fantasy on the GB just to capitalized on the FF brand name. They made Final Fantasy Mystic Quest specifically for the US to bring even more people into the franchise, and released it in Japan under the title "Final Fantasy USA." So FF7 fanboys can pretend like there was no pre-established Final Fantasy brand name, that it didn't exist, that there was no fanbase or whatever idiotic notions are going on in this thread just to worship FF7, but history, and all of Square's actions up to that point, completely contradict that silly bullshit.

Final Fantasy had a fanbase. It was a pre-established franchise. Deal with it.

 


 Final Fantasy did have a fanbase before FF7, but it was very niche.  I was actually in that fanbase myself.  Sony provided alot of the marketing Final Fantasy needed to become mainstream in the West when back then, Nintendo wasn't very nice to third parties.  Let's see if Microsoft is willing to do that kind of marketing for LO.



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