Thanks. And blimey!

That's why Square's been lagging between IX and XI: The movie they spent £200,000,000 on and nobody watched (Worldwide wise, I'll wager at least a million people saw it but that's miniscule, next to nothing. Thus, nobody really saw it…)!

This also explains the substandard, "budget" games after IX. Square Enix had to redeem themselves and decided to get totally cut back by having most of the FMVs dropped in X-2!

And thus malproduction of IX resulted from the budget cutbacks, and pre-movie copies of VII and VIII were already circulating around new and used game stores by then. This is why eBay's your best bet for IX, i suppose…