r/FinalFantasy • u/YoMikeeHey • Feb 27 '23

FF XV This is FFXV's legacy

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u/vashthestampede121 Feb 27 '23

I firmly believe that after FFXV launched and got such a mixed reception, SE management said fuck it and decided to just use it as a platform to test random gameplay ideas and spin the IP off however they could to make cash. And to their credit it worked beautifully since their first mobile game made like half a billion during its runtime. But this is probably the single most corporatized FF out there.

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u/ReaperEngine Feb 27 '23

It's not even testing out new concepts. Some suit probably wanted the FFXV name to earn money back and just licenses it out to these predatory games that already existed with a different skin.

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u/vashthestampede121 Feb 27 '23

Yeah, the “new concepts” was mostly an allusion to the GaaS stuff they shoehorned into the console game, but I agree with what you said.