Thought I'd post this out of frustration. SE needs to step it up and start listening to their longtime fans, and I'll leave it at that.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6283339.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop%3Btitle%3B5Funny though, I spotted some good posts by a couple users...
user "dybbuk" said:
Blame the yen, accounting practices, whatever, the bottom line guys is great games sell. That is what this company was built on, great epic games, and not just from one single franchise. During the psone era there was more than final fantasy. And what about sequels that your fans care about? I can understand not wanting to rehash, but if your going to release something new then you better make sure it doesn't suck. What would be so bad about a Vagrant Story sequel, or a Chrono sequel, or a xenogears sequel? or(dare i say it?) a remake of FF7? AND WHERE IN GODS GREEN EARTH IS VERSUS!!! cmon, someone over there needs to get on the ball. News on versus was out before FFXIV, but FFXIV came out first!? and got terrible scores to boot. Square-enix you guys need a gut check, time to dig deep and decide if your gonna deliver or just fade into average-ness. Sorry for my rant y'all, but I spent lots of nights with square games and my psone, and these last few years have been painfull.
user "punanisher" said to user "dybbuk":
Exactly. I mean, seriously, I have purchased Chrono Trigger three times on three different systems (snes, ps1, ds). What more can a consumer do to state they want more? To me, Xenogears was the epitome of great RPG storytelling and the property was dumped and poorly handled. Square was the reason I went with the PS1 instead of Nintendo 64 way back when. Every PS1 Square game was a pre-order, day 1 purchase for me. Nowadays, they just don't have what I'm looking for.