Sorry to be rude Cone but i have enjoyed reading almost every one of your threads, not because i nesaserily agree but because they where original. This subject is getting incredibly boring. people say how the series is slowly during when because there getting worse. Shore ff13 wasn't revived as well as many before but 12 was still sitting at 92 (as was ff10) on meta so how is it slowly getting worse. its just 1 game. Little big planet 2 is on 91 and nobody is sayign little big plabnet is dying. Shore ff14 was terrible but people have been saying his loong before ff14's release.

same here

I...I didn't know. I apologise

(Is this your rant?)

At any rate, next week will be original, I hope, so not to disappoint you again. Sorry Beuli, but I have another person I need to impress now

Is that not the issue though? 

Quality is subjective, and, as you say, since FF7, the series hasn't hit the same heights. Sales-wise it's stronger than ever, but the quality is far more debatable than it has been before.

Uproar has never been higher since FF13, and unless they pull it out of the bag (CERTAINLY NOT FF14) then they'll lose a lot of fans. It isn't dead yet, but, in my opinion, it's only a matter of time. 

Do a metroid. Give it a break, and give them what the fans want...

The quality has always been debatable, even in the 2D era. It's just that less people played it and there wasn't the internet to talk about such things. Franchises which get popular will also get more haters and more lovers at the same time.

The uproar was also pretty big after FF VIII, FF X-2 and FF XII. Some people probably thought the exact same way that you do, but it's still there and there are still many people who love the series, who loved FF XIII (that's where I belong to).

"Give the fans what they want"..... this is impossible. The FF fanbase is so split up that you can't please the whole fanbase or even the bigger part of it. It doesn't matter what SE is doing, they can only try do develope a completely different FF every time so that they are able to please different parts of the fanbase.

Also, I have to say, it's funny. There are a lot of people who complain about Japanese games being stuck in the past and not doing anything new, whatever. And then, if there's a series like FF which does different things with every game people still complain. So it doesn't matter what's happening with JRPGs, you will always see a lot of people who aren't satisfied.

Lol yes this was my rant (i take this topic very seriously  probably one of the few i do :P)

I will be expecting total awesomeness from your next thread!!!! :D

That's true I suppose. Giving fans what they want is like trying to please someone with split-personality disorder

But, the fans didn't want FF11, yet they still did FF14? 

FF is moving the series forward, but they need to admit when they've gone wrong. They needed towns, and NPC's. And side-quests. More side-quests. And an open world. And a better levelling up system. And more magic. If that was done it could well be the best game ever...but isn't that just FF12 anyway?

You won't be disappointed then.

TBF I never realised the site was so touchy on the topic, I never expected so many hits...

Does it still sell? Yes.

Does it still entertain most people who buy it? Yes.

Has it found itself unpopular among the hardcore gamers who post online? Yes.

Future FF games will sell because thy are solid games with strong advertising is behind it.

Well FF6 was my first FF and I liked it a lot, FF7 was ok but I couldn't understand the hype, nowhere near as good as 6 IMO, Then FF8 blew both of them away imo but voicing that opinion was about as popular as saying you had smallpox at the time.

Now have played every FF multiple times and my top 3 are 12,13 and 8 in that order (then 6, and I try to look as objectively as I can at 6 as I know in this series many never get past thinking their first played is 'the best' but I really cant justify any others above it in 4th place)

Being a literature fan, Personally I the series is getting better as the stories are getting more novel/cinema-like, and the constant gameplay changes, though all have their flaws in some places and none are perfect, keep the series fresh and interesting.

But the magic is contually growing for me, if it were not for this series I wouldn't be playing games, this series singlehandedly justifies the hobby for me. There are other good games out there without a doubt and I enjoy them a lot but I probably would have dropped the hobby long ago had it not been for FF's progression keeping me interested, especially with all the negativity that seems to be in gaming media these days (of which Mr Sterling here is one of the most negative), at times it can be as dismal a media to look at as political media.