I know that already lot's of people talking about this. But I wanna ask you: Do you also had the feeling, all over the years, that everything get worse and quality went down since it's 'Square Enix'?
I remember long time ago..., when we saw the name 'Squaresoft', there was no question if this game is worth buying it. Squaresoft stands somehow for 'good game'.
But since it's Square Enix..., it's like the company lost it's soul. They start to produce too much and with too less quality imo.
Also FF14 was a disaster before Yoshi P. saved it.

In my personal opinion also FF series started to lose a little bit of it's soul since we lose Squaresoft.
It was some kind of roundbased rpg with a big party, which let's us choose which chars we wanna fight with or see cutszenes with. Now it's more and more only action rpg and no big parties anymore. I wonder if FF16 also will end the Sci-Fi Fantasy genre. It seems to be medieval. But we know not much about it yet.

I know it's stupid, but I wish the old Squaresoft could come back. The Squaresoft that just made a few games, but good games. Maybe I should pray hard and try to summon a primal for Squaresoft first, and later the one named Vierathgar that brings Viera and Hroth all the hats. :')