When they turn out well, I like them. I enjoy the worlds they create and enjoy going back. They aren't always up to par in quality, but such is the fate of spin-offs sometimes.

Every other company and every other series does this, so I don't see why people are surprised, or rather so outraged, when Square does it. Star Wars has been made into first-person shooters, RPGs, RTS's, board games, MMO's, action games, adventure games, all of it. It's just something that happens when you have a popular franchise. And that's what Final Fantasy is.

In fact, now that this beautiful Ivalice is already done, I'd like another Ps2 game that takes place in it, despite the next-gen focus already being here. They could make it fairly quickly and probably tell a pretty good story since that's most of what they would need to focus on. That's juz me for ya.