Squeenix got INCREDIBLY greedy and Chocobo GP suffered greatly because of it.  It's a real shame because the game is pretty solid.

To this day I will never understand why The First soldier wasn't a console game. A battle royal is cliche but genuinely makes no sense to restrict it to mobile especially considering how button and command heavy they would be.

Chocobo GP failing hurt so hard because i really wanted it to be a success..

I'm genuinely upset about what happened with Chocobo GP. It could've been a fun Mario Kart alternative, but it just had to be littered with microtransactions. The fact that the Booster Pass was announced for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe around the same time was the final nail in the coffin.

I see a theme with this list.
>Make new subseries/game based off FF15/old subseries revival
>Subseries becomes heavily loved
>Make gacha spinoff in same subseries
>Make gacha one of the worst P2W experiences known to man
>Take gacha and subseries out back when it doesn't meet expectations
>Old Yeller them both in a single shotgun blast
>Repeat because Squeenix is seemingly incapable of LEARNING FROM MISTAKES DESPITE HAVING MULTIPLE GACHAS RUNNING AND MAKING THEM BILLIONS A YEAR

The First Soldier was actually a pretty fun and well made BR, it had a surprising amount of focus on melee combat and a clear FF DNA. I reckon if it were released as a console game and polished to a mirror sheen, it would have done really well.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper was seriously one of my favorite games. The fact they dumped the global version soured me so much.

I'm just glad Opera Omnia has lasted so long. I hope it continues to go strong because it's easily my favorite mobile game.

This is wild. Imagine multiple people, at multiple levels in the company approve making a game and title it "first soldier" - something that fans would expect to have a vast story for continuity to one of the most iconic games - just to make it a storyless battle royale on mobile.. it's crazy

I was very genuinely sad when First Soldier was shut down. I never cared much for battle royale games but I actually got into that one pretty deep. I had almost all the classes leveled pretty high.

Being one who played First Soldier devoutly since beta. I'll say damn, I feel attacked, lol. There's hundreds of stories from the playerbase that fought w/A team on every aspect to keep the game alive. The miscommunication and mismanagement, of the game's support. Even alienated us hardcore loyalists. Console release, fps, class/ weapon scaling, the rate of the gacha system drops, more maps, classes, game types. Yet, we stuck it out. The termination notification came at midnight on last Halloween, and took even the ambassadors back who, had no idea.

They even tried to host an official Esports tourny for FS. Ever Crisis, just feels more like a cliff's notes, water down summary of overall ff7 compilation, and more of a cash grab than FS ever was. Many, of us hold out hope of its return. It had a good gun, and melee combat system, impressive cooperation of materia in various styles. Traversal, gameplay, graphics for 60fps... in the end. The loyal soldier community was hurt, and betrayed by what we came to learn was insider stock trading that had overall killed the game, for those who loved it, and found fond memories within.

It's remarkable to me just how many failures Square Enix has had, considering that FFRK, probably the simplest mobile game concept they've done, is likely to reach its 10th anniversary in Japan next year, and it lasted 7 years internationally.

I still can't believe anyone would pay for any of these mobile games. Even the 'good' ones are the same they just don't fail right away because they hold back their monetization to hook players in.

I'm genuinely mad about Record Keeper.  I loved my little party, led by Celes, because if Final Fantasy has given me anything, it's been some of the most phenomenal power fantasies I've ever had, Record Keeper chief among them

who would have guessed Greed would be a problem for the long life of any game.

I loved First Soldier. I miss it dearly. It had so much potential.

FF Record Keeper, Brave Exvius, and Mobius were all fun.  Mobius actually had an interesting story it was just a complete slog of fights to get small pieces at a time.  The neat thing about that one, is some of the ideas seemed to end up in Stranger of Paradise.  

Exvius has a very good story, though ive fallen off the game a bit.  

Record Keeper was just nostalgia fun.  


I know its not an FF game but unfortunately Echoes of Mana was shut down after one year, but the announcement came before the year mark.

These Mobile Games that are presented as Free-to-Play games only to have Micro Transactions based on either Loot-Boxes in the West and Gatcha mechanics in East Asian games.
I think that is what turned me off from ever wanting to get a smart phone in the first place, I saw it as far back as 2012 that gaming was going down this dark road and yet I was only a consumer nobody wanted to listen to.

4 years later and I’m still frustrated that DQ Walk is Japan exclusive. Why must we be excluded from the DQ franchise to such a heavy degree???

One would think that after so many failed attempts to impose microtransactions on players one would conclude that it's not something that will make the game "stick"... But I guess the possibility of hitting jackpot is enough of a reason to mess up so many promising games.