But we need to find a way that the message will actually get across them though.  This is the most important thing.

 And you know what?  Now that we more fully understand their POV, in that it's money, money, money, we can do this ourselves if we can just pass this on.  If anybody knows how to get to even a guy that knows a guy that can contact SE, we will spam that person to death or die trying! 

In this thread http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=194727&page=1#

I responded with a way of thinking that they might consider undertaking:

"God, if they're that concerned about money they should realize that partnering with Sony exclusively with main FF titles would help them out immensely. Sony would cover all the costs of production for an exclusive FF game and they would probably get better sales as opposed to if they stay multiplatform. You'd also think they would realize that customer retention is more important than customer acquisition. By focusing on high quality, the new customers will come aboard slowly but surely and you'll still have your hardcore base as well. Surely they factor in long term growth."

 If they're so concerned about money no matter what, then as a hardcore Japanese developer they would need to consider their fanbase.

They haven't been doing too well casually anyways it seems.  Casual handheld gamers usually lose interest after a while and they tend to react more negatively to bad quality games than hardcore gamers do by just disregarding certain games completely and moving on.   They have 1/3 sales I believe from everything that isn't console based as was said in a recent sales report.

Hashimoto was oblivious. He thought he was announcing something epic. You can see how proud he is from how he presented the announcement. I think another aspect that might gone wrong is translation. He might have thought that people really wanted FF7 in it's original form for the Ps4 and Sony must have relayed that message to him that way when they asked him to announce something for PsX. It's impossible for Square to be the one who actually decided to announce that on stage. It was Sony who asked them to.

Perhaps the biggest kick in the nuts by a company to its fanbase I have ever seen. Went from giddy to pissed in a couple seconds.

WHAT?? O_O

Offering fans more platforms to play the game = kick to the nuts??

This is why people scream entitled my friend.

And here's the thing we can do: They think (according to that thread I posted a link to showing Matsuda's mindset) that high profitability is more important than high quality.  We can show them that based on their past, their current outlook in the gaming industry, and the appeal they have for certain specific types of gamers that high quality CAN equal high profitability.

It's true for SE too.  Their higher quality games overall (give or take a few preferences) have been their most profitable: FF7-10, 11, 12, ARR.

Yeah, I know X-2, 13, and 13-2 were also highly profitable, but gamers are getting wise on them now.  LR barely broke 1 million so there's some good news.

So wait, what's wrong with the port?

Those damn SE trolls knew very well what they were doing!

I can relate with Max so much, with all the rumours and hype and seeing the title appear. I was so sure it was happening.

They're trolls and they know it.