Heck yeah! Awesome for the franchise and awesome for the game too. Everyone should welcome the joy of Final Fantasy into their lives. 😌 Especially IX. And that critically acclaimed one that comes with an extremely generous expanded free trial. 👀
I'm 26....
My thread name becoming a recurring meme is a source of both immense pride and shame for me.In light of Sqaure Enix declaring that the XVI has expanded the demo of the franchise to new much younger demographics, what can CBU1 do to improve the Remake trilogy in the next 3 years to make it a success?
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. :PI, a 30 year old male, don't know of any teenagers that bought FF16, however, i know a lot of 30 year olds who bought the game, thus making this claim false.
My thread name becoming a recurring meme is a source of both immense pride and shame for me.
Kaiju.In light of Square Enix declaring that XVI has expanded the demo of the franchise to new much younger demographics, what can CBU1 do to improve the Remake trilogy in the next 3 years to make it a success?
In light of Square Enix declaring that XVI has expanded the demo of the franchise to new much younger demographics, what can CBU1 do to improve the Remake trilogy in the next 3 years to make it a success?
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.i am curious if Rebirth tended to be more for the older population.
It absolutely was. It's basically a navel-gazing 'LOOK, OLD FOLKS! IT'S ALL THIS STUFF YOU REMEMBER' game.
I doubt XVI's metrics actually skewed "more young people than old people", though. These kinds of interview translations are always kind of rough, but it sounds like what he's actually saying is that the share of young players increased compared to the last survey.
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.
Era is only full of grumpy old men shouting at clouds.
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, 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 would like to think most companies want to worry about/compare themselves vs themselves first before worrying about the competition.Growth is relative. Having a younger demographic go from 5% to 10% is nice, but if your competitors are seeing growth from 5% to 20%, then you're still falling behind.
"This doesn't mean that all future Final Fantasy games will take a similar direction to Final Fantasy 16," Kujiraoka clarifies, "but I do think it means that we've been able to bring new players on board and open new possibilities for the development teams that will work on future instalments in the series."
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.Easily my least favourite mainline FF game. I'm 35 if that matters. I'm not being snarky either - genuinely bummed me out that I was so down on it.
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 triedI don't get this reasoning. If FFXVI is the game that was successful in renovate the fanbase, how the hell the obvious decision here isn't double down on that?
It feels like their position is to just send generic good news without any kind of compromise lol
Column A: Because artistically, the series has been about "whatever the director wants".I don't get this reasoning. If FFXVI is the game that was successful in renovate the fanbase, how the hell the obvious decision here isn't to double down on that?
It feels like their position is to just send generic good news without any kind of compromise lol
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.FF Fans or Fans of Final Fantasy 1-6 that still live in those times and can't accept the truth(Press R3+L3)?
I think they're just not ready to publicly commit to a direction for the series yet.I don't get this reasoning. If FFXVI is the game that was successful in renovate the fanbase, how the hell the obvious decision here isn't double down on that?
It feels like their position is to just send generic good news without any kind of compromise lol
Yup.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
I feel like these XVI threads are attacking a strawman of people who apparently want the game to fail or something. Or there's some context I'm missing, but they're really strange to read.
I'm looking forward to that PC version anyway and wondering how the DLC integration will be, if it might help me think differently on the things that really didn't work for me here
I feel like these XVI threads are attacking a strawman of people who apparently want the game to fail or something. Or there's some context I'm missing, but they're really strange to read.
I'm looking forward to that PC version anyway and wondering how the DLC integration will be, if it might help me think differently on the things that really didn't work for me here
even among FF there seems to be people bickering with FF7 or FF16. Both getting their wins in where they canI feel like these XVI threads are attacking a strawman of people who apparently want the game to fail or something. Or there's some context I'm missing, but they're really strange to read.
I'm looking forward to that PC version anyway and wondering how the DLC integration will be, if it might help me think differently on the things that really didn't work for me here
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 feel like these XVI threads are attacking a strawman of people who apparently want the game to fail or something. Or there's some context I'm missing, but they're really strange to read.
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.It's an interesting conundrum when you compare to Rebirth, which is presumably doing better with long-time fans and worse at bringing in new ones. XVII really needs to thread the needle and do a decent job with both.