Quote Originally Posted by Neptune View Post
Exactly, it's just a tech demo. It's not a final product but of course it would be asking too much of our friends on the forum to use their brain for 0.3 seconds to incorporate that fact. Nevermind that the tech demo has 100% more chocobo-riding than FFXIV does 9 months after release. And for those of you thinking this is some kind of scam, please don't be so ignorant. That GRIN was working on Fortress is old news; this is like a year old and it's an undisputed fact. Just because you have never heard of it doesn't all of a sudden make it a conspiracy. It is truly sad to see the lengths some of you will go to defend your sense of pride in your choice of hobby.
We are not disputing that Grin was working on a project it called Final Fantasy : Fortress. What we are disputing is that Square Enix had any involvement in its start. From what I've been able to find, Square Enix has had no documentation about this game. And they ALWAYS announce outside developers working to publish a game in their IP's. They announced DSIII before Obsidian even started working on it.


To Me it sounds like the following happened.

Grin: Man we made a fortune doing that Bionic commando remake, I bet if we picked another ip and made a Game for it we could make even more.

Grin: Spend 6 Months working on a Concept to push to SE.

Grin: Hey Square? We've spent the last 6 months building a concept for a new Final Fantasy.

SE: Wut? Uh ok? Fax us the concepts and we'll go from there.

Grin: Sure... (Sends a bunch of stuff)

SE: This doesn't resemble Final Fantasy, Sorry.

Grin: Wait what about this. (Sends SE their own art)

SE: Listen I don't think you understand, maybe you should just stop?

Grin: Cry Cry Whine Whine bitch, SE didn't give us any money and now we have to close.