There have been rumors floating around that Final Fantasy will cease to be created after the 15th game. Does anyone have any sites that says this or anything similar to this? What are your opinions on the whole idea? Please dont be shy, id like to hear as much as possible cuz im shocked

Nah, the only thing is that Square have bought the domain names until FF15.com, so people have concluded that this means there'll be AT LEAST 15 FF games.
It doesn't mean that there'll only be 15.

"Only", haha. :D

I assume no one really knows when this series is going to end. Could go on forever, for as long as there's Square, and FF sells.

I seriously doubt the FF series will end at 15. The games sell too well- I can't imagine they'll stop making the games when they're still making so much money off them.

It's almost a shame though. I'm afraid the FF series will wind up ending less then gracefully, and that's not what I want to see happen to my favorite game series. :(

Originally posted by Tokiko
Nah, the only thing is that Square have bought the domain names until FF15.com, so people have concluded that this means there'll be AT LEAST 15 FF games.
It doesn't mean that there'll i>only be 15.

yeah, its true...

So when do ya'll think it will end?

Originally posted by Xyox2
So when do ya'll think it will end?

even when they stop making ff games, it will never end as everyone will still play the games. look at ff7, its nearly 8 years old and people are still playing.

Yeah very true but i meant when do you think they will stop making the games

Originally posted by Sephiroth's Brother


even when they stop making ff games, it will never end as everyone will still play the games. look at ff7, its nearly 8 years old and people are still playing.

What are you talking about man? Alot of people still play 6, 5, 4, and even 1.

Put THAT in your... console and..... play it... bad joke....

anyway, who said the series had to end with a number? You've got FF tactics, FF chrystal chronicles, and plenty of other square-enix games in the future to look forward too.

and as Sephiroth's Brother said: "it will never end as everyone will still play the games."

Originally posted by Melchior


What are you talking about man? Alot of people still play 6, 5, 4, and even 1.

Put THAT in your... console and..... play it... bad joke....

anyway, who said the series had to end with a number? You've got FF tactics, FF chrystal chronicles, and plenty of other square-enix games in the future to look forward too.

and as Sephiroth's Brother said: "it will never end as everyone will still play the games."

yes, i know, i was just using ff7 as an example. i still play ff1, 4, 4 and 6 as well, you know.

ff should never end, it may come under a different name or anotha company mite buy square but still carry on with ff, or mabe im jus chattin bubbles.

like everyone had just said ff will probably never end in our lifetimes. But the reason is just like one of you have alrdy mentioned is that ff 1-9 are still selling hundreds of copies a year.
as long as their is love for the game and money for the company it will not end

Originally posted by Xyox2
Yeah very true but i meant when do you think they will stop making the games

It'll end when the games stop making tons of money.

I don't see that happening anytime soon. They'd probably have to have a couple *really* bad games in a row for that to happen.

Originally posted by Ndi
It's almost a shame though. I'm afraid the FF series will wind up ending less then gracefully, and that's not what I want to see happen to my favorite game series. :(

I already see the downturn in quality in the FF series, so you're not far off.

But FF will keep selling millions, so square-enix will keep pumping them out while leaving other great series on the back burner (star ocean, vagrant story, chrono)

As long as final fantasy does not get to jump and use guns like in FFx-2 which was not really good at all.

If you feel like guns ruin a Final Fantasy game, does that mean that you hate 7, 8, and 10 also? And if jumping is so bad, I guess ladders shouldn't exist either. Or elevators, for that matter.

Jeez... think before you speak.

No i would hate if ff turned all into guns and i dident say i hated ladders of elivaters i said i would hate being able to jump freely.Next time read properly.

Then your entire post was pointless. FFX-2 didn't have any more guns than any other FF game, nor were you able to jump freely. And there's been absolutely no sign that guns would ever become dominant.

Anyway, what's wrong with being able to jump freely? It would just be a new dynamic to the gameplay, as long as it wasn't overdone.

There'd be nothing wrong if the system was implemented properly, but they ususally aren't in slow turn-based games where they add dodgy jumping bits for no apparent reason.

iirc

I didn't like the jumping in X-2 at all, but I'd personally love to see a jump button in a FF game. Square did an RPG with a jump button once before (Threads of Fate), and I thought it was pretty awesome.

Final Fantasy XIII Will be the last game they make, after that Hirinobu Sakaguchi will focus on other games prodjects, Also he might retire somewhere in the near future so that ceasing the Final Fantasy prodject would seem a good idea at this time for him to part from the prodject.

what are u talking about the end of final fantasy thats seems like impossible why
this game is like the chicken with gold eggs for square soft stopping it like saying no for money
any way until now im still playing final fantasy 1, 2, 7,x and x2 this game is almost imortal

I cant be assed to say what I just did again, so this post will link you to it, though what i can be bothered to say is learn to spell you child

i just hope that they dont stop there FF series is the best and if it stop at 13 that would suck. Where did u hear that?

Well if it does end then it will be part of history forever........
Well thas what I think anyway.....

Don't listen to Alpott, people.

I'm quite sure there will be FF games for quite a while after FFXIII.

Originally posted by Tokiko
Nah, the only thing is that Square have bought the domain names until FF15.com, so people have concluded that this means there'll be AT LEAST 15 FF games.
It doesn't mean that there'll only be 15.


Yea, ur right. The thing that is really funny is that ff16.com, ff17.com, and ff18.com; were all bought out buy other people not squaresoft. Hopefully square-enix will be able to buy them back.

They were probably bought for the specific purpose of selling them to Square-Enix. People who do that suck.

My dad had a domain name once that he didn't renew. A couple months after it expired, he tried to get it back and found out someone had bought it just so they could make him buy it back for an outrageous amount.

Maybe them buying only up to FF15 is cause they might focus right now on remaking alot of the classics(wishful thinking). I believe that FF will go on for many more years to come. I'm a fan for life.

they will probably keep going for years. i can see them bringing out a virtual reality ff game and if they do i hope im still around for it

... ... Who knows when they will stop ... ... ...?

I have a feeling that Square enix isn't gonna just let FF rot and keep making the series for money.What if it ended in one huge adventure with all the ff characters?Personally,I think they should stop at 15,because they might go downhill from there.It would be really sad to see such a great series end like that.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by terra child
[B]There have been rumors floating around that Final Fantasy will cease to be created after the 15th game.

I doubt it. I've played 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,and X-2, and by the way it's been going I really doubt it.

some one don't tell me this isn't ture i want it to last forever how long is forever ne way lol

I hope the series goes on! It's too good too end! I'll go do some research on it and then come back.

I think they'll make up to 15 and then the name will change some amercains will own it, make it crap and because it's still got the people who made the original cames are invloved in it, the games will sell just as good

if final fantasy ends I WILL WAGE WAR TO UNEND IT
and i will raise my kids to like FF bcuz if it ends i will have failed in my endless devotion to FF
to bad FF1-9 arent ported to a nintendo console with better graphics yet
final fantasy has helped me when i was in a hospital room having the docters come to me to do painful crap to heal me i would just play and the pain would melt away
and bcuz FF has helped me i will help it even in death

FF will never end as long as it is profitable.
If it stops selling, then it will stop.
As it is still very popular atm, no end can be seen.

i honesteley dont think that FF will end in our childrens lifetimes. They probably wond have a number cause Final Fantasy 113 is a little hard to say, but the series will still be there with hopefully (yes hopefull with about as much hope as a snowflakes chance in hell) they will be able to get the quality up there. That is considering that some rich bastered in India doesn't buy out SE and turn it into a POS. lol. Just take it easy, it aint gonna end anytime soon.

I think they'll stop when people stop playing it. Not before. At least number 20-30.
Go FF

Final Fantasy XIII Will be the last game they make, after that Hirinobu Sakaguchi will focus on other games prodjects, Also he might retire somewhere in the near future so that ceasing the Final Fantasy prodject would seem a good idea at this time for him to part from the prodject.

There is no reason to belive that Final Fantasy will ceace when Hirinobu Sakaguchi retires after XIII, someone else will probibly continue to create the games as it is making mega bucks for SE and people still want to play them.
I think as long as there is a demand there will always be Final Fantasy.

I am also curious to know where you found your infomation. If you read that from a reliable source then I will be the first to admit im wrong but I cant see Final Fantasy ending at XIII even if the world was ending.

By the way its PROJECT....

Well Hirinobu Sakaguchi isn't exactly making FFXII for that matter. I remember reading that the people who are making it just referr back to him to see if he likes what they are doing. He has the person who crated FF Tactics in charge of FFXII. Which to me is a good indication that it will not end when Hirinobu Sakaguchi retires.

I can't wait till I'm 70 years old playing final fantasy online 27 in my virtual reality room.

I hope this Fantasy never ends.....

I heard some rumor's that they are stopping at FFXII, has anyone else heard these and if so, are they true?

My argument�s a bit Two-sided. I don't want the series to end, but [like others have already said] I can imagine it going down hill if it carries on for too long.

In my eyes, Enix have already started to slip in the production of Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy X-2 is prime a example of what I base my opinion on. The whole prospect of X-2 is terrible. Surely Enix knew that girls play Final Fantasy too?

I�m not keen on [the idea of] XII either. They seemed to have changed so much [not that change is bad] that I�m not sure it�s going to appeal to me anymore.

So, this is what I fear may be Enix's biggest problem with continuing - Audiences.

My argument�s a bit Two-sided. I don't want the series to end, but [like others have already said] I can imagine it going down hill if it carries on for too long.

In my eyes, Enix have already started to slip in the production of Final Fantasy games. Final Fantasy X-2 is prime a example of what I base my opinion on. The whole prospect of X-2 is terrible. Surely Enix knew that girls play Final Fantasy too?

I�m not keen on [the idea of] XII either. They seemed to have changed so much [not that change is bad] that I�m not sure it�s going to appeal to me anymore.

So, this is what I fear may be Enix's biggest problem with continuing - Audiences.


ha thank you!
if i could figure out how to rate up you would get some ^^

they slipped an ff9. it was said to be thew worst so far ( when it came out )
so, they tryed somthing new ffx had the grid .. i dont know about you all but in not a fan of the grid. the game was eye-candy .. it did look good... but the game play was too easy.

x-2 was bad .. i mean major, the npc's were terable, the game was bad, the music was terrable ( the only good part was the opening menu ) the only thing about ffx-2 that i liked was the fmv it was impressive, very enjoyable.

ff11 .. i play it ... its good .. very good .. addivtive ....

then another slip .. ff12 sounds bad ... the story dosnt seem that good.

then advent children ... aaaah yes , the most popular RPG ever created ( dont hold me to that) you can see what they were thinking ... until someone said "lets mave a movie!", hmmmm.

so after the exitement of this.. and the letdown when we all found out it was a movie....

dirge of cerburus was announced! .....


ok so my point is even is i didnt get the order right .. or some of what i have said is wrong. you get my point,i hope.
they should quit. no more. enough. if dirge humiliates ff7 like x-2 did to 10 then ............

this is just me and my ranting i dont expect you all to agree, or any of you to.

if i could figure out how to rate up you would get some ^^


what

what does "rate up" mean ?_?

some forums have it ...

its a popularity system ... to let peopel know whether to listen to you or not ^^
some forums have it. its not a bad system.

The thing is with enix is that they have an absolutly gigantic audience so will not realise if a few million stop buying the game, to me Fantasy is a getaway my own little world where i'm in charge and i can do what i like... so i will be incredibly sad to see it go, but like a few people i do agree that the storylines are getting tired now, it's all about the same thing, guy meets girl, guy tries it on with girl, girl not interested at the time, girl comes round, guy gets girl, game finishes. It needs a big rejuvination in a big way, so the platform works but it can only go on for so long... how long is anybody's guess, i hope it goes for 15 at least.

even if they stop making games in the numbered series they will probably go back and make sequels to some of them or turn some of them into movies or they will probably just slow down with production cuz they are making tons of them in a short amount of time but even if the guy retires they will probably keep making them becuase the fans will probably never let it end.

It wont end untill like 25 but it would pretty weird playin lets say final fantasy 117 as someone pointed out earlier

The roman numeral for that would be like CXVII

I really hope they stop soon, maybe make another FRESH title...Don't get me wrong, I like FF, but it gets stale after awhile...

No matter how good something is, and end is always in sight. The final curtain for the Final Fantasy series could be with the release of FFXII or with FF50, but it WILL happen.

Ever since Hironobu Sakaguchi was sacked from Square, he is only referred to in the later FF's (FF7 and onwards) as being the creator. The last FF he had worked on, as Director, was FFVI.

Regarding towards ideas of sequels and such, Sakaguchi never wanted to do sequels to the games. To him, each one was a complete story in it's own right.

Personally (I'm talking about my own opinions and such.), I do think they've dragged FF way too long. All the prequels and sequels and such, I just don't really see the need for them. I love the FF series, hell I love a lot of RPG's (Whatever one's are released here in Australia that is), but the FF series was the one (In particular FFVII) which brough RPG's out from the niche market they were originally in, out into the mainstream market. For that, I'll always love and respect the FF series.

But as the omnipotent entity known as 'Q' said in the final episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation - All good things, must come to an end. (Talking in regards to the end of the TNG series that is), the final curtain call for Final Fantasy is approaching. If Square continues to 'milk' the FF series for all it's worth, they could end up spoiling the reputation they earned with the success of the very same series which saved their butts back in the '80s'.

Sequels and prequels... they just don't seem right to me. I mean, what made FFX so special it had to have a sequel? But I've gone off topic.

I hope that with the release of FFXII, Square Enix manages to go back to what made Final Fantasy so special, to each and every one of us. Personally, I think Square should finish the FF series while it's still 'King of the Hill', so to speak, and not let it's shine get diluted and covered with rust, with each subsequent game they release.

I would definately agree with you there. But while I love FF, I am seriously wondering how much of the same finding enemies/people/items whilst fighting random battles and levelling up with the occasional frustratingly large distance between Save Points fans can take.

well the thing is no one is really sure when it will stop...well some people have an idea but thats not the point. The only problem with FF is most of the time it's storylines are all kinda similar...now some people will disagree with me i'm sure but look at the facts you start with a party it gradually grows larger (around 6-8 max i think) then you move onto the main story line which is usually defeat the bad guy save the world/universe from destruction or enslavement. You train up you save you complete the game...................heck i love the FF series i don't wan't it to stop it is fantastic :) but it has got to stop sooner or later i hope it not now it'd be great to see it go through to the twenties but seriously to attract more people you need to be more creative new plots.............anyways...once again i love FF :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

p.s the enslavement part think of FF8 Ultimecia she basically controlled the world.....kinda

Of course it,ll have to end , you cant keep making games with the same /battle system/saving the world story. Soon its bound to get stale , they might aswell think of fresh ideas. I like ff but sometimes enough is enough...

well the reason why ff goes so long is becuase each time its a different story and they change the battle system a bit i think they should keep making them but change the story up a bit keep the battle system turn based but change it around a bit but the number on thing is quit making stupid stories with stupid FAG main characters. but i do agree that making all these sequels and prequels are dumb the only sequel i think i justified is FFVII AC because FFVII was a severe cliffhanger.

the games are way to popular for them to quit at 15!

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i really hope they don't stop at 15, but they might be sick of making so many. there hasn't only been 12. theres been many- dawn of souls, crystal cronicles, tactics, tactics advanced, adventure...too many to count.

isnt dawn of souls 1 and 2 with the battle system changed a bit to make it easier to work with?

maybe not easier, but it was made to be more like the current FF in terms of gameplay and stuff(not graphics obviously)...

they added some stuff to it too.....

well they did fix the graphix from the original. i like how they re-did it

ok thats what i thought

Square needs to bring out another game like FF7 to maintain everyone interest. FF7 changed the RPG genre forever.

but thats what advent children is for......

Square needs to bring out another game like FF7 to maintain everyone interest. FF7 changed the RPG genre forever.
NO. They don't.

i think he meant make another to make it popular and revolutionize final fantasy again not just ff7 clone.

and as I said before, NO. They don't. They shouldn't have to make a revolutionary one to stand out because knowing the money maker that is FF, another game should stand out on it's own...

I think that FF will stop soon, but even if it did they would have to make a last game and that game would probally be very very good, but the title i never understood because there can really only be one final fantasy but now theres going to be 12.
Does any one rember the FF games for the gameboy color and mytic quest and such, do they not count as a final fantasys also?
I also heard that FF 12 is going to be much like star ocean in the combat aspect is this true?

I dont know cuz i hadn't played star ocean but what i know is that it is not going to be a real final fantasy, no battle scene, no fanfare, a really diferent logo, main characters almost the same (vaan =tidus with a gay touch) (ashe =yuna like girl), i dont know what to think but square shoul make a final fantasy like 3 or 4, those a real final fantasy games.

I love final fantasy with all of my being, but I think it's gone on for too long, i could deal with one more, but we need to savor the memories we've had with these games, focus on the ones that we already have, because they're so good.

In Final Fantasy XIII the main character shoul be completly different from previous games, i mean it should be someone with a different look just like a ronso or a fat guy like barthelo or a galka. Ii mean in the latest FFs the main character look almos the same. why not a chinesse looking old woman or a green skinned guy like amarant

Honestly I think that FF will stop roughly around 20. I like FF, Yeah it is mostly about the guy saving the girl thing. I'll always love Final Fantasy. It will end.. In like 5-10 years.