If Final Fantasy is to go MIA ...

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#1 kinetic-core
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If Final Fantasy is to go MIA for a period of about 4-5 years, because of various reasons [e.g. Financial crisis, etc. ], do you think the current fans would have gone and stopped supporting Square?

After the 4 - 5 years, and Square makes a comeback, producing a new FF title, do you think the current fans will go staright to buy it? Or, will the fans have given up on Square and went to support another series?

The last financial crisis lasted from 2001-2003, but Square is still doing well with its relatively large fanbase. What will happen if Square has been gone too long, for example, a period of about 4-5 years?

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#2 ffxjunky06
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Wel you need to remember that Square is not only Squre but Enix is a bigger part of the organisation. Enix has almost full command with everything, dont you just love Shares?

Enix has been firing out games, left right and center and i dont think they will be making a Profit but they will make a loss. The fans wouldnt Stick with them after that period of time if there wherent doing anything that is for the Fans (releasing good games) and that means that Square will loss there Fans in the Process.
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#3 wheezal
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time between titles isn't what kills off support.   look at Half-Life and Half-Life 2.

if it goes 4-5 years before another FF game, but it's a good game, then the fans will support them.  now if the game sucks...

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#4 255Loner
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The problem is that most of the fans will have left to the XBox 360, the Wii, or the PC by then, and gave up due to the expensiveness of the Playstation 3.
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#5 wheezal
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well...i have a feeling that PS3 will endure despite it's own shortcommings.  and after some time, all console prices will drop.
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#6 Master_Odin
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The PS3 will still do well probaly as there are a lot of companies that make games exclusively for the PS3 and we'll see more of that with these consosles than ever before. Also, if Square was to go away, Enix would probaly still be making games. Now, say a four year wait between this FF and the next FF. If that next FF was amazing, then fans would be a little annoyed by the wait, but still remain loyal to Square. If the game were to say, really be terrible, then Square would lose all of their fanbase and that would be a huge hit to Square. Finally, again, the wait between games isn't what determines what makes them great, it is the innovations and determination of hte designers that determine the games greateness.
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#7 Am13roses
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i dunno i mean if they make a really terrible game, and its like reallly bad, i don't think everyone will just up and and leave square-enix, i mean most people if you really enjoy the series, id atleast give it another shot, because the company might realize they screwed up and create an amazing game, and if no one where to be loyal no one would realize how great this new game really is, i personally wouldn't just leave i would stick it out. unless they made 2 terrible games in a row, now thats a different story 
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#8 Master_Odin
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I forgot to mention this, but while Final Fantasy might start to plummet, you forget that Square-Enix has a whole horde of different series. Unless all these series went down the drain, Square-Enix won't really fall.

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#9 Dark_Kain
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My loyalty to Square Enix is currently being shown by giving them one more chance to impress me with FF12. If it doesn't, Square and I are breaking up. Plus, right now, Atlus is a sexier vixen.
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#10 kinetic-core
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My loyalty to Square Enix is currently being shown by giving them one more chance to impress me with FF12. If it doesn't, Square and I are breaking up. Plus, right now, Atlus is a sexier vixen.Gorman7147

LOL... yes, Final Fantasy XII will blow you away. :) Final Fantasy XII will be umm... sexier than Atlus. :lol:

There may be some things i just dislike about FFXII, but really, it won't make you "hate" it. No worries there.

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#11 Dark_Kain
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[QUOTE="Gorman7147"]My loyalty to Square Enix is currently being shown by giving them one more chance to impress me with FF12. If it doesn't, Square and I are breaking up. Plus, right now, Atlus is a sexier vixen.kinetic-core

LOL... yes, Final Fantasy XII will blow you away. :) Final Fantasy XII will be umm... sexier than Atlus. :lol:

There may be some things i just dislike about FFXII, but really, it won't make you "hate" it. No worries there.

I'm holding you to this comment. If it doesn't come true I'll... I'll... do something really silly like call a game company sexy.
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#12 kinetic-core
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Yeah.. LOL.

You will not hate the game, hopefully, or a company being sexy just makes me think funny stuff. :P