The game lost it's cred when it stopped being Versus XIII and even that game became a joke after five years of no real info. Let's face it, SE seriously dropped the ball on this game ages ago but I'm happy it actually seems like it's getting done so we can get past this point in the series history.

To be fair to Tabata, he mentioned awhile back moogles were no going to be in the game and got some flack for it which is why he chose to survey how interested fans were. I'll judge the game whenever it finally sees release but considering Tabata also announced the pre-BETA is finished (meaning the basic core of the game is complete and it's now just adding in the extraneous polish) means that it will likely release soon rather than another few years.

To be honest, it may have been a safer bet to just silently kill VsXIII and just make FFXV from scratch but it also seems like SE has company wide internal issues when developing. I still feel the VII remake is just a ploy from the company to make back rep from their poor development track record and even that game is not likely to see the light of day within this decade if their previous track records are anything to go by.

They were able to turn XIV around thankfully and perhaps the same will be true for XV. Who knows. I'm hoping Tabata can salvage this train wreck but it's chances of revitalizing the core fanbase were probably lost years ago.