Revolution...

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I agree with the people who say SE has lost it's touch and FF is finally going down hill.

If anything, Final Fantasy has just began to climax into something huge. When you look at it, it's gaining more popularity over the whole world with bigger production values and fans.

Personally, I don't believe that SE made any of the spin-off's for the fans, I believe that all of the spin-off's were made in a dire attempt to make more money and little milk the franchise for all it's worth, saddly due to milking the franchise, it's causing problems in the eyes of the fans down the road.

While SE acts like any typical business would, through interviews and behind the scenes it is very evident that the people working on the games and movies are very passionate about what they do. It has only shown in a couple of games that they slapped it together just to get the sales going (Only one I can think of at the moment is Dirge of Cerberus).

I believe when they make 3 final fantasy XIII's at a time, that SE's lost it's touch with itself and reality completely. Just 6 years ago, SE would spend -years- on ONE game, putting in all the heart they could into one game. Well now, the years and heart isn't put into one game, but three games all while at the same time creating spin-off's for other games.

That's because six years ago, technology was different and Squaresoft was a much smaller company. With the availability of better and bigger facilities, as well as an increase in technology and employees, Square-Enix are able to allocate a number of teams for different projects. You do realise it's not just one team working on all of the Final Fantasy XIII games, right?

I personally feel that final fantasy's lost it's heart, the thing that made the games loveable and catchy. And I don't see SE even caring that the heart of the game is missing, seeing as after spin-off, mobile phone games, and movies they still continue to do the same thing.

I don't think you have any ground base for that kind of argument. Last I checked, Final Fantasy still follows the same formula as the older ones. Sure there are members who have left and some newer faces giving a different style to the franchise, but I don't see it losing it's heart at all.

As for the movies, they were quality. With Advent Children, it is very high quality CGI work there, and anyone who says differently obviously don't know what's involved and have never looked into the industry. It was an extremely fresh and new way for Square-Enix to express another way to tell a story, and a very good experience for Visual Works (the people who work on the in-game pre-rendered cut scenes for Square-Enix games).

They are experimenting in different mediums, and I don't see why people have a big problem with this. They still have plenty available in the standard medium.

SE is showing what evil companies really are, money grubbing people who will do anything to gain money and that includes driving a once prosperous franchise into a hole.

We knew companies were evil money grubbing people way before Square-Enix. It's typical for every business of every industry. But it's not hindering Final Fantasy, it is allowing Final Fantasy to be expanded into the whole world and newer mediums that are changing our whole lives. If anything, the Final Fantasy franchise has only but expanded and gained greater interest by fans.