Then put someone in a corner office.
I don't think anyone needs to be fired. I think shuffling people around is more than fine, or just overseeing Toriyama stories with much more care! I mean, alongside a game as divisive as LR, we got ARR, which by all accounts is a fantastic game. The talent is most certainly still there. Square's problem has just perpetually been management.
- this topic wouldn't even had the same impact with that written there, maybe not even existing. Because 300k are actually a decent amount of copies sold, and should reach 400-500k in its cycle.
300k is a more rounded and probably more accurate number. 22k is a lot nowadays in that market. That's like a fifth of Mario 3D Land sales
? I like every single FF, all spinoffs included - crappy ones too. I have my preferences though and certanly I vastly prefer the FF following VII than the ones that came before it. It's also because I got to live and grow up with post-VII titles while discovering the pre-VII only at a later age/stage.
The most important FFs in my life have been 7, 12, 13.
Top 3 characters: Cloud, Lightning, Sephiroth
Top 3 fans: Me, Toth, Lyuukkk
Top 3 Nemesis: duckroll, kagari, haters
I can make a list for everything you desire.
Unfortunately for a great many games, it doesn't work that way in Japan. The used game market is extremely aggressive there these days, which means that sales don't "improve" - they either drop off drastically (fairly common) or they end up having serious legs, but I'm pretty sure I can't remember sales of a title *improving* from one week to the next.
