Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Most of the senior staff (e.g. the decision makers, not the people who actually create art/content and the engineers) was changed. Most of the rest of the staff was not. However, it's the staff they did change that has the most power to control the direction of the game.
last time i looked the staff was over 200 and only a few were completely new, but even those were parts of other final fantasy games so they have worked with most of the others for years and years so will still be along the same lines of thinking. the only one that really doesn't fit is yoshi since he's never worked on a final fantasy game nor been one that has even played many of them to even know what the fans of the series even consider final fantasy. he's having to take advice from others inside of the staff that have experience in dealing with the series why fans like the series.