Games industry is a business. Since FF sells absolutely enormous amount of copies, SqEn will keep making it. If the sales ever start to lag, we can start talking about the series ending. Thus far, each episode has sold huge numbers (and spawned off a mountain of merchandise for even more profit), so of course new games will be made.

SqEn is a business, and their job is to make profit. FF series fits the bill. Case closed, at least until the sales figures of the next FF come in.

Final Fantasy will end when people stop buying the games and Square-Enix is no longer making a return on their franchise.

When the world ends.

The World Ends With You!

luvtospooge said: JEDE3 said: luvtospooge said: ssj12 said: luvtospooge said: CGI-Quality said: luvtospooge said: CGI-Quality said: As I said when someone asked this about Halo, hopefully never. A great franchise should live on, help to keep the industry afloat. This is nowhere near halo games in numbers though, lol. You mean in sales or the total # of games created? The similarities in these franchises are there, both are HUGE and both excite people about buying consoles. Why should franchises like these be "killed off"? Killed off is a bit too much.   Just wanna know when they will give up on Final Fantasy. when it stops making money When will it stop making money? youask the questions but ignore the answer... makes e think you were never really serious about the question Final fantasy MMXII...was this your precise answer?

o_O are you trying to bump your thread?

The End, or Final Fantasy, will end if XIII turns out to be like XII (The biggest letdown in a big franchise.

For me, at least.

It will end when FFXIII versus comes out.

When the cost of making a new FF game is higher than the profit.

Really, the FF games have been going downhill sales wise since FF7, while the costs have been increasing. Squenix needs to pull out another FF7, a massive game that brings in a bunch of casual gamers who wouldn't normally pick up a JRPG.

I have a hunch that FF13 is going to have a hard time making back it's development costs, simply because it's been in development forever and uses the utter top of the line graphics on a relatively small install base. Remember, FF12 sold only 5 million on an install base of around 100 million.

And then after 13 you have 14, which is an MMO. Almost all MMOs fail horribly. That's just how it goes. It's a testament to how much the fans love Squenix that FF11 did reasonably well. Squenix needs to learn from their mistakes and make a truly top of the line MMO if they want to make any money off it.

FF series is a never ending series with new games, spin-offs and rehashes that keep the series going on forever and ever.

When it stops selling.

= Never.