Quote Originally Posted by FinalxxSin View Post
I don't know where you're getting your info on that, but it isn't as black and white as you make it out to be. The improvements, regardless of how long they take to complete, are still going to be getting looked forward too by some of the people that bought the game day one. For some of those people, it'll be a deciding factor in rather or not they spend more money on the game with some of the DLC content.
It's completely speculative. My guess is that the 3 DLC episodes are going to take a decent amount of time to complete (maybe 2-3 months each, perhaps longer). Also creating cutscenes, getting voice work done, and potentially adding new gameplay sections is a huge task. I assume they are going to do all of this to give Ravus a bigger role in the story, and it will definitely take a long time.

For me the changes are far too late. I already got burned on the story and don't really care anymore.

Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
Based on feedback from people at EoFF, on reddit and metacritic and elsewhere, I'd say that FFXV has done very well with customers and that the high sales reflects this well.

"If it were a better game, it would sell more" can literally be said about every single game in the entire world, including every other game in the Final Fantasy series.

The feedback from the public has been better than that of XII and XIII, as far as I can tell. I agree more than a handful said it was not good, but again, that can be said about every other game in the FF series.
I should have gave my post more context.

At some point before the game came out (I believe it was 2015 or 2016) Square Enix had said they were looking to sell 10 million copies of FFXV. I'm not sure if that was the company's goals or Tabata's team's goals, but it was a stated goal either way. My point is that if they had been able to put out a better product, they would have been closer to achieving their objective.

Also the feedback from the public has not been better than XII or XIII. If we're just going off of Metacritic scores, XII has a 92%. XIII has an 83%. XV has an 82%, which I believe is the lowest score in the entire series excluding the original XIV.

XIII has also sold somewhere around 7.5 million units (including the Steam release). It sold over 6.6 million units by mid-2013. This is despite its disadvantage of having come out in 2010 when digital purchases of full games weren't as frequent as they are now.

By the numbers I think XV has underperformed compared to the two games you have referenced.