I really get the feeling Enix came in not knowing what FFX mean't and decided to make a completely new game on their own, except it's in Spira.
Wasn't X-2 created before the merge ?
Originally Posted by Rocket Edge
I feel the producers of FFX either would not have been open to making a sequel or else they would have made it more like the first - making you genuinely care about the characters and how the story develops..
- Or they were struggling after the crash that was Spirits Within and they needed some desperate cash.