do you think we will ever get any new material to play with for ff9?

[Marky Tee]

as in sequels prequels or spin offs/ hell even a psp port would be awesome

it is the best in the series after alll

[Rostum]

Doubtful, however there is a PSP port already.

[Loony BoB]

I think it could happen eventually. But if it does, it will be in the same way that FFIV etc. got sequels.

FFIV release date: 1991
FFIV: The After Years release date: 2008

So, a good 17 years. FFIX was released in 2000, so you're looking at around 2017. So... maybe in six years? Who knows!?

[Depression Moon]

I'm sort of interested in a sequel to IX, but I'm not sure if the people today can make it well. I mean it's Final Fantasy IX. The sequel would have to have the most careful treatment in the world and have to be handled by Sakaguchi.

[Wolf Kanno]

Its doubtful, IX is not exactly a success compared to its other PS1 brothers, not to mention its a game that was developed by some old time core FF team members who most of them left Square shortly after. As oppose to IV and VII which both still have some core members from the original games development still hanging around and still in love with the games.

Even if most of the original team was interested in doing another title, that hasn't stopped SE from not taking action, one look at the Chrono franchise is proof of that as three of the most important members of that franchise would jump at the chance to make a new game but SE still hasn't green lighted the project.

[Carl the Llama]

I dont get you people... you say that when FFVII got all those spin offs ect, it was "milking the cow" and now you want the same company to give ffix the same treatment, ftr I have always been a fan of the spinoff's I have watched/played from FFVII and you will never hear me utter such complaints if every game got the same treatment, but it always makes me wonder why everyone puts so much hate out there for squeenix when it comes to spinoffs from FFVII.

Addendum: Every game that is released under the name Final Fantasy is "milking the cow" they are a games company in business solely to make money, don't ever think its otherwise.

[Depression Moon]

What you just said sounded straight up foolish. No one said we wanted what VII got and to suggest there is no emotion behind anyone working in the company is insulting to its hard working employees.

[Carl the Llama]

What you just said sounded straight up foolish. No one said we wanted what VII got and to suggest there is no emotion behind anyone working in the company is insulting to its hard working employees.

I am not insulting them, note you will see that I said I am happy with every spinoff that I have played/watched, but I know the reality is that the company is in business to make money, just the same as every other company world wide, and calling me foolish for seeing it as it is if you ask me, is a little naive, you remember that alot of the staff were highly surprised that FFXIV was released when it was, why? cause the big bosses wanted to make money. Of course the employee's will have pride in their work, but who pays the workers? the Big Bosses, why do the big bosses higher these people to work for them? to make money, thinking its anything other then that is foolish.

oh and asking for "sequels prequels or spin offs" is exactly asking for the same treatment as FFVII.

Think a little and read the other posts before you go making statements like that.

[Wolf Kanno]

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.

[Depression Moon]

What you just said sounded straight up foolish. No one said we wanted what VII got and to suggest there is no emotion behind anyone working in the company is insulting to its hard working employees.

I am not insulting them, note you will see that I said I am happy with every spinoff that I have played/watched, but I know the reality is that the company is in business to make money, just the same as every other company world wide, and calling me foolish for seeing it as it is if you ask me, is a little naive, you remember that alot of the staff were highly surprised that FFXIV was released when it was, why? cause the big bosses wanted to make money. Of course the employee's will have pride in their work, but who pays the workers? the Big Bosses, why do the big bosses higher these people to work for them? to make money, thinking its anything other then that is foolish.

oh and asking for "sequels prequels or spin offs" is exactly asking for the same treatment as FFVII.

Think a little and read the other posts before you go making statements like that.

So you're saying every person who has some power over the control of a company lack souls? That's some bull. These companies wouldn't even exist if someone didn't have the passion and dedication to build and run these companies. You can't generalize a whole group of people like that and like Wolf Kanno said wanting a sequel or spinoff to a previous game doesn't necessarily mean we want the same treatment as VII did, because I've had some experience with some of those projects and I never want to see something as crappy as Dirge of Cerberus or Advent Children again. No, just no.

[Carl the Llama]

So you're saying every person who has some power over the control of a company lack souls? That's some bull. These companies wouldn't even exist if someone didn't have the passion and dedication to build and run these companies. You can't generalize a whole group of people like that and like Wolf Kanno said wanting a sequel or spinoff to a previous game doesn't necessarily mean we want the same treatment as VII did, because I've had some experience with some of those projects and I never want to see something as crappy as Dirge of Cerberus or Advent Children again. No, just no.

God damn, stop putting words in my mouth, make it as cheery as you like, there is no company in the whole world that does what they do purely for fun, yes, it may indeed be a motivator but the bottom line is to make money, put as many words into my mouth as you want thats the truth, its undeniable. FTR wanting to make money does not make one soulless, I want to make money, I am damn well sure you do to, are we soulless? no, we are not, are the big bosses at Squeenix soulless cause they want to make money? how do we know that they value? how do we know what their wants are or are not? The simple answer is we do not, but ask anyone "do you wish to make money" and the answer will always be a yes.

Oh an btw:

as in sequels prequels or spin offs/ hell even a psp port would be awesome

it is the best in the series after alll

Is exactly the same treatment that FFVII got.

[Darth Cid]

FFIX is a favorite of mine, but I don't think it really needs a sequel or prequel, it stands well by itself.

[Wolf Kanno]

People need to take a chill pill in this thread. Consider that a warning before the next person gets snippy with someone else.

[Rostum]

Addendum: Every game that is released under the name Final Fantasy is "milking the cow" they are a games company in business solely to make money, don't ever think its otherwise.

I'd just like to point out that every unique Final Fantasy game is a unique IP upon itself, so it's not really milking in the sense that some say prequels/sequels have milked.

I don't think FFIX really needs a sequel or prequel. It's fairly complete and offers enough closure. But if they did produce anything, I'd definitely be getting it.

[Marky Tee]

i can't find any info on the PSP port...lil help anyone?