Game Design Concepts that the Devs and Playerbase has Forgotten

[Magikazam]

If Square Enix made a "FF17" and was just a reskin of Genshin Impact, people would rightfully decry the greed. Sure, it might have a cool story, but because all the characters are locked behind gacha, and you can't progress without certain element-aligned characters you can only get from gacha, and can only upgrade characters with gacha-supplied trash loot, that's not how final fantasy works.

Nah people would buy it and play it all the time, Gacha game are one of the most popular and profitable type of game currently. People don't care if there a predatory greedy system to roll for character as long as the game is good. Also as someone who don't love gacha that much. Ive still played a few never seen one that litteraly block you in the story or main content if you lack certain element aligned characters. As much as I hate Genshin, I can't critic their puzzle since they are doable with your MC and free characters, and you know, doing those puzzle is a f2p way to roll the gacha.

So compare the WoW players who hate story coming here demanding less story, to players coming from gacha-hell games asking why they can't just pay-to-win every piece of gear in the game without actually doing the fights they are rewarded from. You have two opposing gameplay styles. One only wants to do the "Gameplay" and the end goal is fashion, and the other's end goal is fashion and is somehow happy that gameplay is gated off without spending money.

Nice Strawman and nice way to say you never played both of those game. WoW player don't hate story, they just love the fact that game don't force them to go trought the whole story to unlock every contents of the game, They prefer having the option to ignore the story if they choose so, whitout paying real life money. I also quite litteraly never seen anyone ask seriously for a way to p2w and get every piece of gear in the game.

A newer game than 14 (Eg 15 and 16) may improve the engine, but these games can not repeat VII's success.

Final Fantasy 10 sold more than 7.