As far as the Ogre series is concerned, I think it's safe to say that Final Fantasy Tactics/Ivalice games are the spiritual successor to the Ogre series. Hell, I think a lot of the same sprites from Tactics Ogre were brought on into games like TA2 and Revenant Wings, I think the dudes with wings specifically.

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Chrono has been stopped because most of the original development team for the series have all left Square, in fact the one guy still actually working for the company (not freelance) has said he has no interest in making another game after the original. SE says they will make more if the game sells more but they have also said they won't make it cause they refuse to make a new Chrono team and would prefer to bring back most of the original team which will be very difficult to some extent.
Actually a lot of people from the Square side who worked on Chrono Trigger still work at the company, namely high profile people like Yuji Horii, Nomura, Kitase, and Naora and most importantly Hiromichi Tanaka. He not only produced but designed Chrono Cross as well. A lot of the other people have left Square, but they still get brought on to projects through outsourcing. If Square can get Uematsu to come back for Final Fantasy XIV there's no reason they couldn't do the same for the Chrono series.



As for my thoughts generally on the topic, I'm not really sure what's up with Squre Enix these days. Half of their titles are in their main, sure-shot franchises, while the rest are from their quirky new Western studio, games that I'm 99.9% sure no one even in the West really cares about. Apparently they see how the Western market has skyrocketed and want to take advantage of that - the problem is their ideas to do so are pretty, well, stupid. I think they're focused so heavily on this because they see the Japanese market contracting.

But I'd say one of the primary reasons for the Japanese market contracting is because developers like Square Enix haven't been making innovative games in the last 6 or so years!!!