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@suppaphly42 The sales weren't crappy. It was actually the third highest game in the franchises history and one of the best-selling games of 2013. Their exectations were overly-inflated. They spent a buttload on promotion and development to make that game and probably didn't break even. Hell TR outsold most of their other games including FF X!!!. We're getting to the point in time, much like the movie industry, where development costs and promotion are so much that developers can't make money on what was once considered very successful hauls. Remember when 500million dollar box offices used to be incredible hits in the movie industry. Now the fans are literally being blackmailed into watching a movie 4 or 5 times in order to ensure that a film makes more than twice the ridiculous amount that it cost to develop and promote a film for it to be successful and ensure a sequel. Even a few of the Harry Potter films are said to have lost money and those were ridiculously popular. So these days we have to understand that there's a difference between popular and profitable. Those are the two conflicting modern day definitions of successful...