What if FF as a series ended?

[Loony BoB]

It already did ten years ago.

Eyes on RPGs or Eyes on Gaming would become a serious possibility.

No need for that. FF will retain nostalgia value. I suspect we wouldn't notice a huge difference in user registration.

It definitely would. EoFF gets more new members because of games like FFXIII and FFXIV than we do because of FFVII these days. Anyone who thinks that a forum based around an active video game series will be just as active if the series closed up shop is blinded to logic. And with your knowledge of what is popular on YouTube, I think you know exactly what draws people to the site.

Re: chionos - What I said above, but also will point out that while you might think EoFF survives because of Final Fantasy. I am quite confident that EoFF, over a few years, would become a mere shell of what it is right now should SE close up FF. The community is what keeps members sticking around, but it doesn't keep every member and we need a steady supply of newer members to keep activity going for when the older members want to come back to an active place. Seven of our top ten posters this month joined in the past four years.

There's also the fact that while new members can join because of old games, it's often because of the marketing of newer FF games that people remember the old FF games at all.

Thankfully I don't see FF dying anytime soon at all. SE are sensible - there is more reason for them to simply change the way they work on FF but keep the FF name than to abandon it altogether. Each game is new and each game is unique and innovative - there is no worry of running out of material in the world of RPGs. If one person runs out of good ideas, you replace them with another.