My thread name becoming a recurring meme is a source of both immense pride and shame for me.
I, a 30-something, know of several students of mine who bought it, however, I know no 30 year olds who bought the game, thus making this claim true. :P
I mean, yeah, I don't doubt it really? It was largely aimed at people who loved FF7, a game which is getting eeriely close to 30 years old. I'm sure they'd have liked other people to play it too, but the stigma is still there.
Late 20s like many here but I think we're the last ones who were bought in as kids. I grew up on 10 and 12, and liked 13 in my teenage years, which made me go back and play some older ones too. So I'm still their 'older' fanbase I think.
Gacha is the most hardcore immersive mechanic because it actually affects your life.
I, a 30-something, know of one 22 year old who said this in response to asking what I was playing: "Oooh, eiiiie, wow, cool how do you even keep up with all those? 15 years of games, wow, do you need to have played them all?" thus making the claim true as he clearly had never heard of Final Fantasy before. :)
I would like to think most companies want to worry about/compare themselves vs themselves first before worrying about the competition.
Similar feeling as a 33 year old. This has more to do with me being an RPG fan though. I could see how a action game fan would love the combat, but the RPG mechanics were too shallow for me to like.
I would wager Kujiraoka knows that if he said anything of the sort, iy would start a war he doesn't want to be involved in. You couldn't piss off more FF fans saying something of the sort if you tried
Column A: Because artistically, the series has been about "whatever the director wants".
From my completely anecdotal experience, people who like 1-6 seem more likely to dig XVI than those who started with VII and onward. I started with IV and I adore XVI. Which makes sense because XVI's setting and story would fit pretty nicely in that lineup (namely with the II, IV, and VI style of darker stories), and there's a ton of Final Fantasy V inspiration in its character development system.
I think they're just not ready to publicly commit to a direction for the series yet.
Yup.
even among FF there seems to be people bickering with FF7 or FF16. Both getting their wins in where they can
It's a bit of backlash-to-the-backlash. For a long time XVI would get trashed in even completely unrelated threads (and very often by many of the same people and points over and over) so there's a hair of schadenfreude in getting news like this. Until the recent Rebirth sales speculation came out, sales threads would often have people coming out of the blue to dunk on XVI.
I had a thread about what an XVI follow-up could learn from Rebirth without losing it's own identity. There was actually some good discussion to be had in it for a while before the shitposting started.
