Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
Well technically they are working on those elements as well, since Tabata has stated that they are foregoing the ideas of sequels to better clean up the later chapters and add more content expanding characters and story elements. Considering the options in that survey they did a few months back, I feel the team has a decent grasp about which story elements that could be better.
Why couldn't they have just delayed the game another year? Why couldn't they have just scrapped all of these spinoffs, the anime, the movie, and focus on making the game as good as it could possibly be at launch?

I got burned by the experience I had at launch. Them updating the game after the fact is nice, but it doesn't do anything for me.

MMOs do stuff like this the whole time, there is no rule that says other games can't either.
Final Fantasy XV is not an MMO. I would rather Square Enix focus their time on their singleplayer content and actual story instead of time exclusive "festivals". Seems like SE has lost sight of what the franchise was built upon in the first place.

it's very unlikely the team will ever fix the game to the high standards fans placed upon it.
Expecting a Final Fantasy game to have fantasy elements, good characterization, a complete story, and depth in combat might be high standards. But they're also standards that the series exceeded and thrived at after 30 years of success. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect those things from an FF title, and FFXV failed to deliver on all of them.

Even if they did, for those of us who remember the original, the game is pretty much tarnished anyway, and will always be the game that "patched in the good stuff later". So it seems silly to me to feel that any news regarding the game will somehow work as a silver bullet to fix all of the games problems that some have with it.
I agree 100% on this. The problem I have with FFXV is...you can take everything else away. Take away the festivals, take away the anime, the film, the mobile edition, and all you're left with is a mediocre Final Fantasy.

For people not happy with the direction of XV, it's better to save your energy and focus on the horizon, like hoping XVI will be an improvement, or at least the KHIII and VII Remake don't suck.
I would have this attitude, but unfortunately Tabata's team keeps sucking away Square Enix's resources to add useless updates to FFXV (like the multiplayer update).