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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA
Consumer sentiment regarding Square Enix was much more skeptical back then because the franchise had been on a decline since then.
Dirge of Cerberus and the FF7 Compilation in general did not paint a good look on Square Enix's storytelling ability at the tune, and pretty much every Final Fantasy game had been plagued with unstable development issues since after 12.
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This is not entirely true.
Rather than skeptical, SE consumer sentiment regarding FF mostly driven by purist that firmly believed turn-based RPG is definite FF identity, especially numbered title.
So you have funny situation where target audience barked about SE dependency on VII and quality decline are more or less same people that prioritize past series append and dislike everything after X because nothing beats good old days; like how people bash Genesis for being theatrical, ignoring how he's perfect narrative foil to Zack just because Sephiroth matters more, or Kingdom Hearts convinced people SE can make action RPG because its not FF, unaware of Sakaguchi interest for freedom of movement for FF since X and custom tools originated from XII long development time.