Honest commentary on the fanbase

The office has seen the light!! neato'

Anyways here's my five cents. The fans are sorta spoiled, that's because some of us are so accustomed to past, that we're unwilling to vision the future. But that still reflects back to SE, because it's their decision to scoop down to the fans negative feedback. For eg. Once upon a time, SE actually were more interested in making creative games out of their own imagination. Think about VII, it was considered revolutionary in its field. Than IX came, another mix of ingredients and outcome a whooper. Finally another revolutionary game came out, X was marvellous for being the first PS2 FF. It utilised many of the facilities that the PS2 offered, they didn't construct it out of the fans whining, but instead felt the freedom to grace its fanbase with its own ideas. Also there was XI, which may not have been perfect, but it layed the foundation for future great MMO FF's (not that I'm a fan of MMO, FFXIV be gone!).

Than came out XII, now to me that game was the perfect foundation, for SE to innovate it self to next-gen gaming. Of course, my sight wasn't seen by a large proportion of the fanbase. (which was okay). But the real problem began, when SE acknowledged the negative feedbacks that were displayed from XII, and constructed a game with almost polar-opposite gaming mechanics. IMO SE was no longer about letting their imagination allow them to create games, it was about creating games to please the fanbase. Now im all for pleasing the fanbase, but at the cost of caving to the fans demands and nullifying their sense of pride and eagerness to make fresh and innovative games, shouldn't have been acceptable. So came XIII, which I abhorred, but even than I saw that game as nothing but a mistake, a sign of SE's weakness, but something I was sure of that they would recover from. But instead, they once again made the same mistake they made with XII, they caved again. It's quite obvious that XIII-2 has many features that were constructed to combat XIII's downfall. But the problem remained, they were lacking their sense of innovation and ideal to create their own games. Now im not saying that every game, that is created out of desperation to hold on to the fanbase, is going to be all bad. But I'd wager, that because they were so fixiated on creating a game that would repent for XIII's mistakes, they ignored some other important features. That allowed XIII-2 to become another very controversial game. Anyways that's all I have to say, rebuttle it all you want, but remember it is my opinion.