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Message: [QUOTE="Moth_Lobster, post: 202897, member: 291685"] I think this was one of the worst parts of FF16's marketing. A lot of us clearly knew what Yoshida was trying to say, we were there, we have heard all the complaints made towards the mainline FF series. We heard that turn-based games suck. We heard that they were "too anime/Japanese". We heard every tired argument that could be made ad nauseum and I can only imagine how bad it was for him as the head of this project to try and make the next mainline entry appeal to a casual audience that just quite frankly either does not care to begin with or has a (probably false) negative idea of the franchise in mind. Anyone who's played 14 or 16 knows he loves the classic games. Both of the games are filled with so many references to that era of FF, if not being an entire tribute to that era sometimes, but by god was that marketing not helping edit: just wanting to clarify that i'm bringing this up just because a lot of people try to blame him for this decision or say that he hates turn-based stuff when it was pretty clear from his words when you read the whole interviews that a lot of the old-heads at Square Enix remember lot of the mid to early 2000s "anti-JRPG" western reviews that plagued the industry at the time and he just wanted to avoid similar complaints [/QUOTE]

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