How is the new idea bar on the decline? They just created a brand new game with a brand new battle system, a new magic system, new characters, and a new world in the sense that they just created that particular world. The ONLY way it mirrors Ivalice is because it's called Ivalice. Its set thousands of years after the Ivalice games we've played. For all we know, ALL the FF games are of the same world (though I doubt it) because they have in common the complete lack of names.

Sequels are also hardly 'running out of ideas'. X-2 was, in fact, a brand new idea. New battle system, and the expansion of a previous story. They'd never done a sequel before. As for AC, BC, CC, and Doc, AC is only the second movie they've done. That's hardly rehashing the same thing over and over. BC is a cellphone game, which they've never done before. CC, cant say as it doesnt have much info. DoC is a shooter, which Square has also never done before (or at least not on the context of FF).

What is unique, anyway? Lets see... FFI was four people saving the world. FFII was four people saving the world. All has to deal with crystals. All FF games have the same basic plot (saving the world) and the same basic battle system. The games have never been wildly different or incredibly innovative, that has never been the draw for FF.

Square is simply damned no matter what they do. No matter what they'd done for FFXII, their fans would bitch about it. For years fans begged Square to make more FFVII. And then when X-2 came out, they exploded because "Hey, X sucked, VII is way better so why dont we get a sequel!?" then they do. Then its "omg Square is running out of ideas, they're just after our money, and so on!!!" It doesnt matter what Square does, they're going to bitch about it.

And to make it perfectly clear, no I am not angry. No I am not pissed off. I'm expressing my opinion.