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A203D on 02 April 2011
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ishiki said:
A203D said:

OT. anyway - it dosent say anything about Matsuno - as i think he is no longer with Square. but Wada is an ambitious CEO, he will never let go of FF. and we will have another one - whether its from production team 1 or 4 or a collaboration is unknown, but it will happen or SE will go bust.

i think there is a strong likelyhood of a production team 4 project. besides i've seen some of the interviews with the FF12 staff - i think they would do it again, no doubt, and FF15 is a chance for them to revive not just Final Fantasy - but Japanese console gaming, why pass up an oppertunity like that.

besides after the reception of FF12 and FF13 i think the shareholders, executives, etc are more willing to accept change, since its not just Sqaure Enix thats having problems, but also Capcom, and other developers in Japan.

I guess kinda offtopic. I don't particularly care if everyone leaves square. As long as the developers go somewhere and do something useful like what happened from clover to platinum. You know better. But what has matsuno done since he left square? Besides Tactics Ogre Remake that was with square :P

But I do agree. in my perception by the critics have gone down with the last 4 (11,12,13,14). And with fans.
But this is a theory that won't happen cause FF would make money. But I'd rather them just do a new quality JRPG not called FF.

And then it wouldn't have the baggage of having fit what other games did. Like with Xenogears,  or Vagrant Story. And the even kinda have. TWEWY is quite different.

/ends not making sense.

Matusno did Madworld with Platinum, but nothing else since then to the best of my knowledge. i've heard he might be working on another game with another company - however i think he could still be working for Sqaure on this FF12 Fortress thing that came up a while ago. even Ito has dissappeared since FF12. but whereever he is, he is also part of the Tactics team so its hard to imagine he enjoyes working without them - they are a unit (no pun intended).

Sakaguchi has apparently delieved with The Last Story. The Last Story is a good example of what the developers could do - but it came out on the wrong console imo.

yeah, but it dosent matter if they make a new RPG or not - Sqaure Enix's financial earnings for the last quarter were forcasted lower than they orignally expected. FF is their biggest IP. Wada cant let the series go or else....

i think SE have tried new IPs like The Last Rebellion or Uninfinite Discovery, but they havent been well recieved. and i think this is problem i mentioned with the older generation of developers not in tune with the contemporary gamer. so even if some developers leave and make new games the results will likely be the same imo.

and developers want to work on it because theres no other game at Sqaure, that has the international appeal of the series - despite how much its wavered recently.