Quote Originally Posted by ShinGundam View Post

Here's something for you all to read.
Apparently, you can't differentiate between obvious troll and substantial opinionated articles that is far from often deal with childhood memories.
The fanbase for FF is huge and varied, it is extremely shortsighted and narrowminded to take what he feel about FF personally and project it on
everyone else. That would be silly.
While I would agree he does not speak for everyone, the negativity around the franchise is not as minor either. Examples:
Can SquareEnix Final Fantasy Rise Again? | The Bitbag

Has the Fantasy finally run out of gas? - PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, PC, PSone, SNES, NES opinion at Thunderbolt Games

Can Final Fantasy Still Save Square Enix?

All released within days of each other I might add. Maybe it's just SE's week to be the punching bag. Still, even on other gaming forums, I'm not seeing the old devotions to the series. So while it is very unlikely that people feel FF is scratching the bottom of the barrel, I do feel their is a general consensus that FF has been in decline for awhile (how long varies of course).

As for the short development time between games, it was about three years for most of the titles. Only VIII-X were released consecutively and personally I don't feel this strategy really worked for all the games benefits. VIII and X always felt incomplete and IX was completely overshadowed by the "sequel to VII" and "the first FF on the next generation platform" so I wouldn't mind going back to the 3 year waiting period. If SE could finally shelve out a game that deserved 5+ year development cycle (fingers cross on Versus XIII), I'm sure most people wouldn't mind the wait.