The Ogre Battle games had quite a loyal following.

As for Dragon Quest I've never played it nor have I ever felt interested in it.

I certainly believe ending certain series was motivated by competitive fears. The last poster is of course free to believe whatever he chooses.

Square seems to be farming out certain gaming...they own the rights to Nier it seems although the graphics for Nier are poor and the game seems dated in certain respects.I wonder why they bothered to allow a subcontractor, it seems, to make a game with their name attached to it that may not do well when they could have done another Ogre battle, mana or chrono game and gotten much better sales than they will ever receive from Nier.

shrugs.

Some questionable decision making being done by Square.