Final Fantasy XIII series sold over 10 million games, do they deserve it?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Pristine20 said:

kupomogli said:

Pristine20 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
No imo... I don't think FFXIII was the FF we all wanted to have in the 7th generation... Its Auto-Battle, mostly terrible characters (Looking at you Snow) as well as no real party system (in the sense where you can control more than one person during battle) and many other reasons, I don't think it deserves that many units at all...

Just out of curiosity, do you like Kingdom Hearts? It's a beloved series but does everyone know that you can only control one character in battle? It would be nice if you elaborate as to why the game is bad including how much of it you did play.

On topic, yeah it deserves the sales. FFXIII-2 wasn't as good and it sold lower which was deserved as well.

I'm not a fan of Kingdom Hearts, only finished the first game btw, but it's a series of action games.  Final Fantasy 13 wasn't.  Final Fantasy 13 is a game that wanted so hard to be an action game, which is why they made the gameplay like it was.  Lightning Returns is probably what they wanted to do, and what they should have did for the very first game.

Who gets to decide what FF13 is? Developers or fans? I think it's the former. They made a turn-based/action RPG hybrid and some like it. If being an ARPG is what gives devs the right to limit party member control then won't you say FF13 earned that right too? Afterall, it was trying to be an ARPG hybrid.

I agree that the developer gets to decide what FF13 is... It is their vision after all... But I get to decide whether I like it or not and should it deserve the sales or my purchase... I don't think it deserves the sales based on the things I hate about it but many people like it which is why it got those sales. But with that being said, they would have had many more sales if they did what the fans asked which is why FFXIII-2 sold half of what FFXIII did... Clearly a lot of people hated the system as well... There comes a point where a developer have to ask them selves where the line is between what they want to do and what the fans want and they have to find a silverlining, cause if they don't, they will lose customers such as myself... I bought FFXIII, played it for a bit, then I sold it and didn't get FFXIII-2 and probably not gonna get Lightning Returns

At the end of the day, developers makes the game for the customers... If they make a game that most of the customers don't enjoy (Such as what Capcom is doing), then the customers won't buy the sequel which is basically what is happening