Quote Originally Posted by Bunny
Final Fantasy is not the best video games series, or even the best RPG series, of all time. They are decent games, but nothing significant to write home about. The most successful thing Final Fantasy has ever done was make their games have a high replay value. They are far from groundbreaking.
Groundbreaking =/= good. Innovation is not, in itself, a good thing. There have been more innovative games that are complete junk than I can possibly hope to count, and you can get some absolutely stellar titles that don't innovate at all.

People overreact to extreme proportions when it comes to EA's policies, game releases, etc. They do what every other major video game company does with far less transparency. And they can, because people still gobble up whatever trout they release time after time.
I'm on the other side of this. People under react to EA's practices. EA continues to make horrendous decisions that are obviously anti-consumer and harmful to the industry, and the games themselves. But people just complain about it instead of simply ceasing to give EA money, which would shut down the problems almost immediately.