Is the JRPG/FF run over?

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yum123 said:
the quality of ff is certainly not going down at all. all thats happenig is people are
expecting some kind of god like this from ff which is rediculous. no matter how good a ff game is going to be people will still complain because its not the exact same as a previous 1 which is just stupid cause them people would complain more square enix definelty have the hardest audience to please by a long shot

True, but this is due in part from what Xxain said. As much as I love the Final Fantasy games, they haven't been equal to the be-all-end-all of JRPG's, yet people and reviewers always place that burden on FF, be it for popularity reasons or for it's own producers or S-E hyping it to no end. 

Final Fantasy fans already know what to expect from each new Final Fantasy, especially if they go to each new iteration with an open mind, instead of wanting all FF's to be rehashes of FF6/FF7.

OT - Nope, the JRPG run isn't over and it won't be over for many generations to come. People can put the genre down, or FF down in this case, but the overall panorama won't change that much. Heck, I still remember the days when WRPG's were pratically doomed to an oblivious existance on the PC's, with very few series and good games in that genre. Look where they are today. Who's to say that JRPG's, in the future, won't come back to the top? 

Oh, and FF bombing? If FF bombs, then what does that make for any other JRPG? Heck, most WRPG's would be glad to do the numbers that any FF game does :P Clearly, the concept of bombing isn't what you think it is.