What happened to Final Fantasy?
What happened to Final Fantasy?
Nothing, it was always a console franchise. Both 16 and Rebirth outsold these two no-name games by selling millions on the PS5
Yet, completely forgotten today. How strange.
Square going after literally any market other than their own established playerbase, and too concerned chasing trends than following the conventional wisdom of square pre-enix merger/buyout
XIV too WoW, added catgirls and became the biggest success in their history.
Why wouldn't they continue making derivative slop?
proofs? I am a PS5 shill with consoletard friends, I havent heard any of them give a fuck about final fantasy since 13 with some playing the MMO sometimes.
FFXIII is around the time people stopped getting hyped for Final Fantasy games, the fact they had auto battle systems and then fucking action battle systems ended the fan base that stuck from the beginning of the series or at least from 7th onwards. Its just a dead franchise at this point, Octopath and Bravely Default were better final fantasy games than final fantasy was pumping out and sold more. They rejected tradition so people rejected Final Fantasy in return.
took* WoW
Sorry my keyboard tends to malfunction due to high semen content
Completely forgot how to make games, listened to HR/marketing/Americans instead with their "numbers and statistics".
13 was shit
Then 14 was shit (ARR was worse)
Then 15 was shit
And finally 16 was really fucking shit
Because it hasn't worked for their more action oriented games, yet they keep chasing that dragon as if they'll actually catch it one day
The MMOs are a little unique in that there wasn't a way to deliver something like a MMO in square's/ ff's prime
No turn-based = no buy
Just don't say anything about 7RE, anon
Waifufags and coombatfags will come out of the woodwork to defend their goats
japshit kusoge btfo by indie developer
AAAAAIEEE frenchchad I FUCKING KNEEL
Haven't played it myself so I won't don't worry
If you played the original and enjoyed it, AND furthermore have the good sense you seem to have, then you'll likely hate them like I did. Thank fuck I borrowed them and not payed for them
Good for you, anon
As soon as XVI, 7R and 7R2 come to PC you won't see shitposting and hate towards them anymore. Mark my works. It happened to Death Stranding too.
most loved FF games in history
FF7, FF9, FF10
all turn-based
LET'S DUMB ALL THIS SHIT DOWN
AUTO-BATTLE
REAL-TIME COMBAT
ONE OR TWO SKILLS NOTHING MORE AT ONCE
I just want four or five niggas in a row. Comfy turn-based. And I want skills with a cinematic that take a minute to complete.
Rebirth already sold between 7 and 10 million on PS5. Everyone already had it before it came to steam. But nice try.
Rebirth was the best selling third party game on ps5 in 2024, square even got an award for it.
Not making Final Fantasy 12-2: Offline MMORPG harder happened.
Xenoblade came in, stole their thunder. They've been floundering since.
RIPiss, you won't be missed, Square!
Proof? Because remake and intergrade did get an announcement.
meanwhile, 16 and 7R1 are still not favorably received, already on pc
Sure, it'll be 7R2 that does the trick
Both 16 and Rebirth outsold
Metaphor
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Delusional. Metaphor sold like 2-3 million. Square USED to be able to reach that within a day, but hasn't reached a million in years.
They turned them into action games
Next question
the entire xenoblade series has yet to outsell a single FF game
16 alone sold 3 million copies in one week, that was 2 years ago and way before the pc port...
The series has lost its way. Sure the games are still enjoyable and all, but Square Enix let's Sony squeeze their balls constantly which ultimately leads to mainline entries flopping due to being locked to the PS4/5 for a year and up before going to PC.
And it sold 500k with the port, per their own sales reports.
...And...?
I want more Final Fantasy 12. Square isn't giving me more Final Fantasy 12. Square is dying.
Ipso Facto, Square should give me more Final Fantasy 12 if they want to stay alive. A new Front Mission would be nice. Parasite Eve 4 that didn't character assassinate Aya Brea would also be nice. A Brave Fencer Musashi sequel that didn't suck shit would also be great.
Square only has themselves to blame, because they have hits and then proceed to go "hmmm... nah, let's not do more of that!" (Final Fantasy 12-2 is a FUCKING REAL TIME STRATEGY sequel to a fucking offline MMORPG!)
Don't forget stagger, anime tier action while looking annoyingly realistic because it's what's trendy, even though other rpgs with anime artstyles (smt/persona, Xenoblade, fe, tales of, etc) seem to do well enough
Square isn't giving me more Final Fantasy 12. Square is dying.
Another FF12 and they'd die for real because it was pure shit.
3 million is what Rebirth reached in like 2 weeks. Your trash doesn't compare.
everybody already played it on console and honestly that the fuck is there to talk about at this point? We've been talking about Tifa's tits for 20 years now man
Source?
Is there an open world remover mod for Rebirth? It could elevate that 6/10 slop to like 9.
Sony jail
Ps5 exclusivity killed sales
Saying 9 is one of the most loved games when 6 exists is wild.
Letting a fucking MMO director make a single player game has to be the stupidest fucking decision ive seen from a company
NTA but as of december 2024 Rebirth had sold at least 7.6 million copies on ps5. Since it got the partner award for it, right above Wukong.
So no source since SE would have announced those sales themselves like they did for remake+intergrade.
Gotcha.
They also admitted it underperformed hard like xvi, but let's ignore that.
But anon, don't you want to be ImMeRsEd in a realistic meme?
Thousands of 7RE threads have already proven by consoomer anons that anything remotely similar to the original is boring/ doesn't capture their fleeting attention spans
they never admitted anything, they said the sales don't disappoint but the exclusive strategy isn't working anymore for them.
oops, misread the article, Rebirth sold at least 5.1 million copies as of december, not 7.6
Wukong sold 20m
Elden Ring sold 10m
Rebirth sold 2m
Wukong sold ~5m on ps5 at the time of the award, Rebirth is above both wukong and elden ring.
No source is compelling, however, there's something to be said about the millions who likely knew what remake was about, and bought it anyway
It stands to reason that after 10 months, enough retars would be retarded enough again
Of course they said the sales didn't disappoint
It's very rare that corpos ever admit shit is bad, it's all about strength, and other stupid bullshit trends to convince themselves that it's the consumers fault, and not theirs
Then why won't Square publish a sales milestone? They do it for other games
It's very rare that corpos ever admit shit is bad,
anon this is square we're talking about, when something fails to meet their retarded expectations, they shout it as loud as possible
Popularity doesn't matter. E33 has a story worth experiencing, the other three games doesn't.
Nah. They were proud enough to announce 3 million for XVI and 2 million for DQ3HD. Less than 2 million is the most likely scenario.
Sony lists Rebirth below both. It didn't sell anywhere near as well as Wukong, though that should be obvious to anyone who knows China exists. I'm afraid you too are a victim of Hamaguchi's shilling.
blog.playstation.com
Ah, fair point
I do forget their retardation is a bit unique
Final Fantasy was always a poor man's persona with a really loud minority.
all these sales discussion
no official numbers
Metaphor officially sold 1 million and Rebirth zero copies. Metaphor sold more.
Poor man's Persona already has a name (SMT)
Stopped being turn based. People are so desperate for turn based FF that the MTG FF sets are sold out everywhere.