Quote Originally Posted by Sephr View Post
That's pretty subjective. With the exception of XIV, i'd say all their games in recent years have sold pretty excellently, and whilst a couple had some slightly below average responses (FFXIII was slammed by a vocal minority, whilst lots of people still enjoyed it, myself included. XII had some issues involving an overly complex and political story, but again, was well received by a lot of people), the generally are producing a pretty good quality of game.

Furthermore, it seems like they're realising shit is hitting the fan by neglecting the opinions of the consumer base and falling behind in terms of gameplay and technical ability (outside graphical quality), and they're trying to sort this out and doing a pretty decent job of it. XIII-2 and XIV are good examples of this.
I try not to base it on sales, because honestly, you can hype the crap out of anything and sell billions of copies. It doesn't mean the game is actually good.

I commend their efforts in redesigning FFXIV and still have hope for it. It's the single player, offline RPGs that I miss. You will not find anything like the games we used to play out there. FFX-2, FFXII, FFXIII, the KH spinoff games (non-numbered), spinoff FF and related games for NDS, some Dragon Quest titles, etc... These are all games are was rather disappointed with. While most of them structurally sound, they lacked the RPG nostalgia, captivating storyline, and general immersion into the game that old-school RPGs provided.