The Compilation of FFVII is pretty bad; I feel like it's the main reason FFVII has a tarnished reputation. I like [about 60% of] Crisis Core, but if I have to hear one more person talk about how Zack should have been the main character of Final Fantasy VII, I'm going to scream. Which is a shame, because I love Zack. That, and Genesis is legitimately the worst thing to happen to FFVII canon.

For the series as a whole though, I think its the exponential growth of commercialism for each individual title. Some of it's fine; FFVII had an (admittedly bad) movie, FFIX had a coke commercial, FFXII had the potion soft drink, stuff like that feels like novelties made for the fans.

Its the other things, like blatantly making Gackt a character in FFVII, changing the main theme of FFXIII to "My Hands" (this is a minor example, and its not a bad song in its own right), the Louis Vuitton deal with Lightning; there's the current examples with FFXV: each character's outfit being based on a real life clothing line, making a real life Regalia for no other reason than to say it exists, making a movie and an anime midquel/prequel with famous television actors, three tie-in mobile games. It's as if Square Enix said "each entry in our flagship series has to become a multimedia franchise with celebrity endorsements and fashion lines to be seen as legitimate".

It won't hamper my enjoyment of the games at all, but it's hard to get excited about a game when the company that made it markets it as a smaller part of a much bigger scheme.