No offense dude, but you have no clue.

   Yoshinori Kitase, Hiroyuki Itou, Kazushige Nojima, Tetsuya Nomura, Yoshitaka Amano, Shinji Hashimoto, Akitoshi Kawazu, Toshiro Tsuchida, Masashi Hamauzu.

   Are just to name a few. Although I guess ironically these names dont tell you anything.

i dissagre. final fantasy have not been shit for the last 10 years, it have never been shit it have always been the best rpg franchise well at least for me, but in the end is about tastes so if you think that well thats your opinion. but maybe the FF games have sold so much because people think is not shit and actually like it? and i dont think is fault of the series that people dont buy others rpgs you cant just blame the FF franchise for that.

If FFXIII would bomb (As in selling less then a million combined (not going to happen)) then people would probably stop making JRPGs. Let's hope it sells well!

The OP sounds about right to me. I see FF7 as the sellout point for Square. It was hugely hyped up for the graphics, and after seeing what pretty pictures did for their sales, it's all the FF name has meant ever since. I've been waiting for a commercial failure in the FF line for a while, and I think 13 really has a good shot at being it. Yes, Square does need to go back and realize what made the older games good. And it will take a bomb to do so. It's sad, really, when I loved the FF series so much in the (S)NES days, and now I really don't care for it. It's let the DQ series grow on me instead. However, with S-E's slowness in getting those out, they may lose me as a customer permanently to Atlus. But that's for another thread...

Let's try to think positively!

• The main character is described as being Cloud but a chick -- Square has found a character concept that people like and are rather fond of.  They wish to please their biggest fans by giving them something similar which Square hopes they will also enjoy.
  
• They are already planning ten years of spinoffs -- Square is putting a lot of time, thought, and effort into not only providing you a great experience in the form of this game but future ones as well.  Fans should be overjoyed to hear that Square will be providing even more great games in the future.
  
• The game has had delay after delay after delay --  Square is taking the time to polish this game and even bring it to an entirely new platform.   Square is dedicated to the highest level of quality and only has you the gamer in mind so they're taking as much time as they need to provide you the AAA experience you deserve.
  
• They care more about how the game looks than anything else -- Of course Square cares about how the game looks.  After all you will spend 100% of your play time looking at the game so they want you to enjoy every second of it.
  
• The last few games have been bad, why would this one be good?  -- Perhaps the last few games were not to your interest but that can and will change with FFXIII.  Square hopes that you will try their latest entry into their award-winning Final Fantasy series before judging it.

/Square rep repsonse

1.) I thought FFVII was mediorce and didn't originally have a problem with the game but what really pisses me off about the game is the fanbase it garners. 'Sephie' fangirls and Cloud fanboys were the worst in high school.

2.) I don't want FFXIII to flop because I can only see a bunch of 'Final Fantasy: Chocobo Partys' and 'Final Fantasy VII: the After' to recoup the losses.

3.) FFIX was the last good FF. Other than that, FFVI had a superb story but I like FFIV slightly more for the gameplay.

same here...i really want this game to fall very hard..
SE this gen is a complete failure.....i really wish they file for bankruptcy soon
die SE, die.....im not supporting your games again you cu**s

Agreed.

I Agree, too.

Go play the SNES games already, sheesh.

Even if you're SNES-less an hate pirating, there's no excuse for not playing FFIV DS...!