What consumers expect of a FF-title

[Xoo]

What's interesting is that they seem to think that if they screw up a game, they can re-release it under the name of Original Title-2 and that's an acceptable way of keeping a consumer base. It's not working.

[Jinko]

What's interesting is that they seem to think that if they screw up a game, they can re-release it under the name of Original Title-2 and that's an acceptable way of keeping a consumer base. It's not working.

Its yet to be seen if this will work, its pretty well known that you only get one chance to impress with an MMO though so its unlikely that 2.0 will do very well either.

I only hope they don't screw up Dragon Quest X, otherwise they may as well close up shop.

[Malakhim]

No worries, guys. Final Fantasy Versus XIII is going to save the series.

[Betelgeuzah]

No worries, guys. Final Fantasy Versus XIII is going to save the series.

Implying the series needs saving? Lulz

[Biggs]

What's interesting is that they seem to think that if they screw up a game, they can re-release it under the name of Original Title-2 and that's an acceptable way of keeping a consumer base. It's not working.

Speaking strictly about the main 14 FF titles, I seriously don't consider FFX to be in any way a failure as a game. Most people seemed to have genuinely liked FF X, so I don't feel like X-2 was an attempt to "fix" FFX. THat being said, I also don't feel that FFXIII-2 is a reattempt to "fix" FFXIII. As a matter of fact, it seems to have all the same elements combat and story wise that its predecessor had. FF has a long history of revisiting many of the worlds it created. We have played in Ivalice several times, and more than a few spin offs have been made about Midgard but lack the "2" in the title. Also, I may be one of the few that genuinily liked FFXIII, and I think that the sales DO reflect more than just people buying the game for the brand. Case in point, the used copy of XIII at gamestop is still around 35$, which shows at least partially that it has maintained a fairly decent resale value. It certainly isn't my FAVORITE FF title or story, but I felt that it certainly contained all the key elements of all the other FF stories. XIII just got hated on more than others because the dev team chose not to cut you loose in the world until 30 or 35 hours into playing the story. Time will tell if they learned anything from our feedback about that or not.