I think that, to an extent, the purpose of the main numbered entries has become essentially to showcase their best efforts. Not cranking out the same thing over and over, but at least trying to create something that's representative of the state of the genre, if not push it forward.Xeogred wrote:It's kind of fascinating to think about this, but how and why do you guys think that Square Enix allows themselves infinite time and money spent on Final Fantasy?
Obviously, that's probably got a "for better or worse" caveat in there, though most of it is subjective. Part of the problem of branding so much stuff under the name is that fans expect everything to be like the entries they particularly got attached to.
'course, having played SE MMOs for as long as I have...I have a lot of negative things I could say about them as developers too
I think there's a lot of upper management that aren't as savvy about modern development and such. There have usually been vast, effective changes in XI (and the rebuild of XIV) when the younger folks have been allowed to step in and run things.They probably still make bank on the brand anyway. XI was, at least at one point, the most profitable game they'd ever made, and likely fueled a lot of other projects. XIV is probably doing that now, etc.
