I'm just hoping this game isn't a rushed attempt to gain some ground back from FFXIV completely bombing. Overall, Japanese companies are way behind the curve when it comes to next-gen gaming. They are spending all their time trying to learn how to do HD graphics and spend little to no time doing Quality Control. Unlike the US, they don't have dedicated QA departments... they just wing it with their programmers.

Not only that, but supporting the XBox 360 crippled any hope of FFXIII being open-world/non-linear. Believe it or not, but that was the original goal... until they realized that it would be too costly to produce 6+ DVDs for the Xbox 360 version. I'm not hating on the 360... I play the hell out of both systems and they both have their benefits. In the case of RPGs, the Blu-Ray has the edge because of storage space.

I thought FFXIII was a very beautiful movie with an interesting storyline. Oh wait, it was a game... But seriously, the difficulty level was 1/10. I'm tired of playing baby RPGs. Go back to the days of FFIV where even regular mobs would destroy you if you weren't prepared. I'm not a fan of endless grinding, but damn... take off the God Mode. /end rant

So the tl;dr version is this: If SE keeps on the way they are, the company will go bankrupt in the next year or two... and if FFXIII-2 is nothing but a half-assed bail-out attempt, they will guarantee that fate. We want our FF back... No ideas for FFXV? Move over because the fans do. Get a clue SE. /sigh