Oh, May I address the notion that fans are getting whinier? No we aren't really.... When the early FF games came out (1-6) the internet wasn't popular, also if you remember only 3 were released here before 7 came out. And the majority of the people here never played them on NES/SNES (if you did great, but I know many didn't until AFTER they played 7) So, starting with 7, the internet boom happened. This is when we started to say how we felt about video games. As more games came out, 8 and 9, the fanbase for the series quickly broadened. Thus more people started playing. And with the release of Anthologies, Chronicles and Origins, we got to see the earlier games that some were to young to fully enjoy, or ones that were plain new to all of us. Now, seeing as many played the newer ones first, they compared the older to the newer and vice versa. Being human we all have opinions and the ONLY place we can say our opinions on FF to a larger group of people other than the group of friends who you hang out with (who more than likely share similar opinions), is on the internet. When Square-Enix tries new things (FFT, CC, XI) we are here on the net and we all post how we feel. Its not that we are whiney, its that we all want our opinions heard. Some of us just love to hear arguments, others like to just talk about anything FF related (ME!!!). Regardless, it appears we are getting whinier, when its that the more games that come out, the more we compare them. And if an opinion is negative or different than your own, we perceive it as whiny, whereas if you agreed with it, you'd be like, right on.
