The Lessons Not Learned.

[Midareyukki]

I don't know many people that will call XIII anything but hot garbage. I've not bothered to look into its sales, but I know I would rather get a lead injection to the dome than play that game again.

Yikes .__.

Also, on wht you said, FF13's sales were actually a record holder. Quoting from Wikipedia, "Selling 1.7 million copies in Japan in 2009, Final Fantasy XIII became the fastest-selling title in the history of the series". The issue is that the sales happened around the time critics were praising the game. The backlash happened afterward, and the image of 13 sank since. In fact, the sales being a record prompted Square to greenlight two sequels... unfortunately they didn't expect the fans to be the ones receiving it poorly.

[Absimiliard]

Yikes .__.

Also, on wht you said, FF13's sales were actually a record holder. Quoting from Wikipedia, "Selling 1.7 million copies in Japan in 2009, Final Fantasy XIII became the fastest-selling title in the history of the series". The issue is that the sales happened around the time critics were praising the game. The backlash happened afterward, and the image of 13 sank since. In fact, the sales being a record prompted Square to greenlight two sequels... unfortunately they didn't expect the fans to be the ones receiving it poorly.

Yeah, that sounds about right. That's kinda been the pattern with Final Fantasy titles for a long time. Main titles, anyway. There will be a huge surge of hype followed by incredible levels of disappointment. Obviously this isn't so much the case with the earlier entries in the franchise since standards were very different then, and players had far fewer ways to voice their discontent. The only title I can recall since FF7 to not be immediately followed by a ton of salt was FF10. People for the most part liked it, although many of them said they wanted to throw Tidus off a bridge.

I suppose you could count FFXI, since it technically is a main title. It was surprisingly well received right up until that Absolute Virtue garbage.