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Icyedge on 01 February 2011
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LordTheNightKnight said:
Icyedge said:

Milking something in our current discussion means to release cheaply made sub-par product relying solely on the trademark to earn profit.

Whats going on with the final fantasy serie right now is not that. The game they are releasing are quality game in which they invest time and money. Let alone their bad management with FFXIV, they arent exploiting their customer by releasing cheap or sub-par product with the final fantasy name on it. Final fantasy XIII is longer and look better then most jRPG. As far as we know, the same can be said of type-0, FFXIII-2 and FFvXIII. The fact a minority or majority dislike their type of game, or specifically one game, doesnt make them milking out their customer.


Well if not miking, then relying, as the name is used on games that could just as easily have different names, even beyond the usual main series being unrelated.

And just making effort isn't good in and of itself, when the effort is often on things that raise the cost more than needed, and/or come at the expense of effort on things that actuall help a game (the graphics of XIII at the expense of content).


I agree with relying, sure. Anyway, its natural for companies to relay on their popular existing franchise to sustain their company. Beside, its not like Square is only developing FF titles.

About the graphic VS content. I dont think its the actual problem. Even with those graphics, there is still a lot of content to be find in FFXIII. By a lot I mean more then the average. Surely less then some other FF titles, I dong argue with that, but thats not the point. The game wasnt unpolished or unfinished, or short by any mean. It was a good 40 hours without doing side quests (my save game is at 70 hours). It simply didnt please all players by not allowing more freedom early on.

In any case, all their future FF title seems to have exploration early on plus lots of content, maybe even more then FFXIII. FFXIII also remain one of the better reviewed jRPG of the past years. All in all, I really fail to see the problem with the final fantasy branding. All developers are bound to make games that will not please all their fans sooner or later. Personally I disliked FFXII a lot... they redeem themselves with FFXIII :P.