Readers of this site (SKKC) that actually believe this drivel are nothing more than a bunch of sheep.

square damn it...

only Hajima Tabata and the Dragon Quest Team and Kingdom Hearts Team are making quality titles. the rest are eh.

About selling items = SILKROAD COPY!!!

Have you beaten the story?

The combat is definitely not void of strategy, due to the paradigm system and the stagger system gave a sense of fast-pacedness.

It would only seem to be void of any strategy if you've only played the beginning where they made the fights easy, due to the early fights being a tutorial.

The characters are not all unlikeable, actually, and they're definitely not rehashes. Why would you even say that?

FF13 took years of development and thought from the development team. It was definitely not a product of laziness, as you could tell from the high amount of detail in the animations, graphics, and setting, as well as the thought put into making a fast paced turn-based/action hybrid gameplay system. In fact, they went back and re-lipsynched every word in the game into English for its English release. They didn't have to do that, but they wanted quality, so they did all of the work anyway.

The only thing people really complained about was the lack of an open world to explore. They said they didn't want to do that because it would take too much time. Do you really think that was a lie on their part so they could be lazy? I don't. Not after all the work they'd already put in it. :/

You're proving the point that the only reason people didn't like 13 is because they lost customer trust. This becomes completely apparent when you see how hard square-enix's former fanbase tries to find plot-holes in this game.

Remember the whole debacle about Lightning's Sword? This was a really prominent one. It's completely apparent from the first scene in the game where she got her new sword from, but people wanted the game to be bad so eagerly that they didn't actually look at the scene itself.

By the way, it's not like Square-Enix really has my trust, either, but I just want to give the developers credit where it's due. While 12 was very boring on my first attempt at a run though, 13 is actually pretty good game, provided to actually give it a chance.

Also, the way Persona is always about the hip urban youngsters with murder/supernatural mystery is a pretty solid base.

As long as they stick to those two basic fundamentals for Persona, they're in the right hands.

Really they should just have the Final Fantasy franchise have a break to let people cool off and give the Dragon Quest team time to make a proper Final Fantasy game as they at least seem to know how to keep fans happy and make a good game.

Also to the poster somewhere up above.. the recent decline in FF titles has happened right when square merged with enix.. also the original creator of the ff series left when enix merged with square... so youre telling me that that's just a coincidence??

I suppose it could be 'just fine' by some few people's estimation, but the general consensus seemed to be "God dammit, why did I waste my money pre-ordering this shit?".

Now we have what seems to be the company stating they don't think the game will make enough off sales and subscriptions to be profitable and are turning to alternative money making measures. measures which would seem to foreshadow them admitting the game isn't worth anyone's money and making it F2P.

Some of these points might be able to be interpreted differently, but on a whole, something is very obvious even to people haven't played the game: Something is very broke.

So please, cut all the "Play it or you aren't allowed to have an opinion!" at least until after the company itself has decided the game is worth people's time and money.

And I SOOOO would buy another single player FF game, provided Yoshitaka Amano or Tetsuya Nomura would still be involved, as Nobuo Uematsu.

Hell, name me one single Squaresoft's game directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi that failed? And they've basically thrown the guy out (that what happens when you're not allowing the creator to work on his terms)

This remind me a namco-bandai employee:

"Hurr durr lets sell the games ´piece by piece,we sure this will be the future of gaming and finances and our salvation""