Quote Originally Posted by _Pigzig View Post
I don't think anyone trusted the devs actually, except some fanboys.
Most people here didn't buy 1.0 at all and the Final Fantasy series was long in decline.

The reason I bought 2.0 is it looked way better right from initial screenshots. It was obvious they made a totally different game. I was sold on the game because of how Dragoon looked. Here are some early screenshots for fun.



And there was a lot more positive buzz. You couldn't even find the game in Japan on launch.
There wouldn't have been a core playerbase without trust in the devs, though. My friend who's been playing since 1.0 Launch has shared with me some interesting things, such as PDFs of the timelines they shared with their playerbase etc etc.

There was a loss of trust but some of that had been regained from the devs showing that they honestly wanted the game to at least *work*. There's absolutely none of that with NW. No openness, no trust at all. It's a dumpsterfire that looks pretty (like 1.0) without the new team involved to toss the dumpsterfire out and make a garden instead.