I never said I wanted it to get the VII treatment, I'm actually happy the game is overlooked and its main core team is a bit scattered cause I do feel the Compilation is pretty terrible, XII:RW was awful, and TAY was mostly irrelevant.

Course, there was a time when developers did look at their games as fun and creative projects and that was what was most important to the company(Mistwalker, Level 5, and the Persona Team are current Japanese examples). FF use to have that mentality with Square but Wada is as you said, he's not an artist, he's here for the bottomline. Considering how much corporate meddling has screwed over the last three FF entries, I can't say I would be happy to hear SE announce their doing some Compilation projects for my fave FF titles, cause I don't feel SE has the right mindset anymore to do those projects, and as my quote in my Sig states, it goes against the creator's idea of what FF is.

SE still has some great people aboard, Ito, Tokita, Nomura (amusingly enough), Minagawa, and Hashimoto. Course, half of these guys are in executive positions, and with the exception of Nomura, the others only get full creative control of their projects when its small, like with Tokita's cell phone titles. Sadly, I feel SE lost all of their more creative members back in the PS1 era, and early PS2. Sakaguchi, Uematsu, Kato, Mitsuda, Matsuno, Saga, and her husband Takahashi, just to name a few. I find it amusing that some of these people have recently released JRPGs that most journalist and Japanese gamers are saying, are bringing some life back to the genre.