Haha, love the little jab at the end there.  Couldn't just be civil, eh?  You're so intimidating.

And I fixed your little type-o about Dissida.  I understand, you were frothing at the mouth to make this response.

Anyway - I love how we dance around all the atrocities SE have been producing in the series.  Not just remakes and spin offs, mainline games.  Like Final Fantasy XIII - the one just about everyone hates.  The one where where you can't yell people down with entitled arguments like "there's no turn based battles, GET OVER IT", because the story and characters are complete and total shit to near objectivity.  And you know, you're right actually.  Our voices DID fall on deaf ears!  Because they made two more of these awful blights on gaming.  Three games where they had no idea what they were doing with, not only Final Fantasy, but this joke of a trilogy that was seemingly storyboarded AFTER they made all the eye-fucking graphics.  But back to this trainwreck of a game later.

Then there's Final Fantasy XIV.  You know, the original.  The bollocks one that everyone hated, the one that Square-Enix has tried to make everyone forget about(to great result if your cherry picking is to be cited).  

Then there's Final Fantasy XV - the big 10 year kahuna. The game that took 10 years because - what do you know - SE didn't know what the fuck they were doing with Final Fantasy. The game that turned out to be alright if you like weird Kingdom Hearts battle systems but slowed down for old men.  Yet still, even with it being pretty solid, there's a ton of people talking about the issues the game has.  And you know what? This happened:

http://time.com/4713709/final-fantasy-xv-update/

So, there's my red carpet. Maybe SE does listen to fans after all?  And there are people that can't get over that Final Fantasy isn't turn based anymore - but according to SE:

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/03/31/bravely-defaults-success-west-making-square-enix-rethink-jrpgs/

And apropos if nothing:

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/63395/bravely-default-flying-fairy/

http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?name=lightning+returns

Bravely Default did better on one console than a Final Fantasy on two.  And thank whatever god you like that it did, because we got games like FFXIV Reborn and XV and there's no way you're going to argue those games are better for FFXIII trilogy's existence.  No, XIV and XV are the antithesis of XIII because of the all the backlash and trashing that trilogy got.  Can you imagine if SE weren't listening?  You'd have more Lightning styled characters and Fal'ce bullshit stories.

I think Square-Enix's ears are very much capable of hearing, it's just a matter of if they're letting their art departments run the show or they're actually making an effort.  They can make some decent to good games if they try, but as far as Final Fantasy is concerned it's heart and soul left with Sakaguchi.  Final Fantasy is purely a product to make mass amountse integrity of money - th of it as art is long gone.  

(And before you say it,  I'm aware companies exist to make money. But terrorists exist to incite terror, do we give them a free pass because they exist to do it?)