Quote Originally Posted by nirojan View Post
Seeing how soo many RPG series are taking the action route, mabey Final Fantasy should start doing it too? I know this'll upset the majority of the Old school-Hardcore fans, but the newer generation doesn't seem to be interested in traditional RPG styles.
Then they should play something else!

It's annoying that FF is changing to suit these people. I can understand why S-E are doing it (biggest audience = highest profit) but they're not doing what they're best at which is frustrating for long term fans and probably won't even be effective in the long run.

What they're doing is still good, but it could be so much more and it worked so much better as a game aimed with passion at the specific JRPG niche it had than it will ever work as a brand milking exercise. And whilst you can kill a brand, you can't kill a concept.