SE just doesn't seem interested in or capable of engaging the fanbase of their intellectual properties anymore.
There's really only one sentiment that can possibly be behind this, and it's definitely not apathy. Apathy doesn't go over big in Japan. It's fear. SE have set up numerous redundant barriers to their fans contacting them directly, and have never been ones for copious amounts of question-and-answer. This was ok in the SNES days, because we were teenagers, and everything they were doing was fine with us.
The elephant in the room, now, is that SE has a legion of 30-something and 20-something fans that they treat like red headed stepchildren. When their latest Big Thingtm fails to win them a new legion of adoring 12 year olds begging their bewildered parents to buy them the latest Interactive Confection from Sqeenix, and they finally turn back to their grown fans and ask for us to shell out money for some half-hearted window-dressed remake of a SNES era hit or two, I worry that the reaction for many of us will be to scoff at them. I worry that that will be my reaction.
The once-mighty Square forgets who made it great, grows proud, and falls.
This is what will happen.
Thoughts?