Quote Originally Posted by ShanXiv View Post
not everyone is Hiromichi Tanaka/Hironobu Sakaguchi/Yasumi Matsuno, (SE fired them all, nice...)

The current state of SE is just like many other old great companies (Blizzard, Apple, Sony)
I'm not sure how accurate it is to say they were fired. Maybe some of them were sort of getting pushed aside from the roles they had been doing and it made leaving the best option for their lives. Fortunately Matsuno was brought back freelance to help with the Ivalician raids in XIV.

I do miss the times when Sakaguchi was steering the FF ship because they were blazing a path in those days, very aggressive, not afraid of taking risks, innovating and making emotional and beautiful games.

I guess with how huge the company is now and the insane budgets of modern games, they just aren't able to take such big risks on exploring niches so XV was somewhat modelled after successful Western action-adventure games and XIV took many ideas from WoW.