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Punished_Blinx posted...

That's what they already sold on the PS1 though. There's no growth.

Square-Enix is looking at Elden Ring, Breath of the Wild and Monster Hunter World selling around 20 million and they're envious. That's what they want. Won't surprise me if those games hit those figures with less discounts too.

The thing is it used to be one of the biggest. It really isn't anymore.

It's big enough to still be big but most publishers in their spaces have franchises that are a lot more popular.

It's not the biggest, but I'm just saying that they're far from irrelevant.

pegusus123456 posted...

I do not understand why they haven't just replicated FF7R's formula. It's the perfect dash of turn-based gameplay in an action game and it handles the traditional RPG party incredibly well.

Their problem right now is that they keep making massive changes in between each release. They get some things right and some things wrong. But the next game has entirely new problems. I think they should pick a combat system and then iterate upon it and improve it.

Like, there's so much they could do if FF17 improves upon what we got. Deeper progression systems, different weapon types that change how combat feels, more variety to basic attacks beyond one 5-hit combo (I was hoping that we'd get different combos based on how many basic attacks we did before pressing triangle). There's a lot they could iterate on. But 17 could end up being vastly different again.

Vyrulisse posted...

True about the sales. People don't ever seem to "count" it but FFXIV's most recent expansion Endwalker sold so well they literally had to stop sales and advertising over the Christmas holiday to prevent the servers from blowing up. Literally every world was closed for new characters for an extended period of time.

During that the base game sold so well they temporarily ran out of digital keys. It's weird how XIV never seems to be a part of sales conversations.

Yeah, FF14's sales figures are through the roof (over 24 million players), but I've seen people brush it off with "that's an mmo, it doesn't count" so I didn't include it.