Shauna - People definitely got annoyed at the plethora of FFVII spinoffs. I remember people getting sick of it pretty clearly.

I look at it both positively and negatively.

Positively
- I liked XIII & XIII-2, so I don't mind having more of these games (although Lightning was never my favourite character in XIII/XIII-2).
- I see XIII-2 and Lightning Returns as Square-Enix taking the time to figure out what players want from them. They were lambasted by many for XIII and I don't think they want to start working on XV until they know it's going to be better received. In the main series, not including sequels/prequels and MMOs, they have released just one single player numbered game in in six years. I believe these other XIII sequels/spinoffs are being made to get an understanding of the modern gamer and what they can do to please people. I think that once they have a better understanding, they will start to really push on a new game. By using XIII sequels/prequels, they can minimise costs that would be spent on concepts, design and development for monsters, worlds, lore, characters which they would have had to pay a lot for if they were to come up with a completely new game.

Neutrally
- I also see XIII-2, LR etc. as them paying off the development costs of XIII.

Negatively
- I find Lighting to be one of the least interesting XIII characters, with only Fang being less interesting and Hope being borderline.
- I really, really, really look forward to a completely new Final Fantasy single player game. ;_; I want to hear about it nowwwwwwwww!