What consumers expect of a FF-title

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The Motomu Toriyama and Tetsuya Nomura era for the FF main series should come to an end IMHO.

Even though FFXIII-2 looks amazing by it's own standards, the bad taste that many people got from FFXIII is no doubt hurting their sales.

The sci-fi, hyper-action, glam-character, ultra-linear, cg-movie, approach is not what the core fans want from the Final Fantasy main series.

If that is the direction that Toriyama and Nomura want to go, then SE should really break the franchise into separate series:

• Final Fantasy Worlds (FFI-IX, FFXII...)
• Final Fantasy Dramatic Action (FFVII:CC, FFX, FFXIII, etc..)
• Final Fantasy Online: (FFXI, FFXIV)
• Final Fantasy Tactics: (FFT, FFTA2, FFXII-RW etc..)