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Because it's not SquareSoft anymore - it's Square Enix now.
And with the new name, they have a new team, with all the good ones leaving to Mistwlaker (can't blame them), they have a new vision of what a Final Fantasy is, something like a playable-ish Jdrama, they have new market strategies, making remakes and spin offs, they want to "innovate" while taking out of Final Fantasies all the good stuff we used to love - solid story, character interaction, prominent fantasy themes... heck, it's called final FANTASY - I don't want it to be as real-life as possible, I don't want it to be all japanese guys and girls, I want it to be a fantasy. I want my Qus and my Moombas and my Cait Sith and my moogles and all the fantasy stuff. I want the magic. I don't want an anonymous game with Final Fantasy icons thrown in. I want a real, coherent Final Fantasy world - like FFIX was, or FFX, or every other FF before X-2.


(Yes I despise Enix very very very very much )
X-2 was Square Co. also if I remember correctly. Also, I feel that since the only noticeable difference in any of the company's combined series is in FF it's safe to say Square freely "screwed up" the series themselves. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the merger was purely business, and the teams in the respective company's remained largely unchanged and free to continue doing as they wished.

I think Square does not have faith in a game like FFIX selling on it's own merits in this current market. They have long been the company of "over-the-top cutscenes" and "games that play themselves", so why stop now when games keep selling?
any assertion that the companies that make up Square, once they were acquired were free to continue doing as they wished.

I believe Square took steps to curtail games they saw as competing with FF and their Dragon game..the Ogre Battle games are an example of that..and they abandoned other games such as the Chrono and Mana games altogether.



The only way we'll ever see a return to the games like FFIX is a complete collapse at Square and a reshuffling of their developement team.