>>61743The problem with Final Fantasy is that Squeenix has a very hierarchical structure (common with Japanese companies, but Square-Enix is particularly bad for it), and the guys at the top made it to the top when video games were a minor industry. Sakaguchi, Nomura, etc were all borderline bohemians who were just having fun with life instead of working at the big conglomerates like everyone else who graduated college. Video games were a minor industry back in the early 80s, so some guy going off to work in a small crew of 10 on some game instead of focusing on his career as a salaryman was either a disagreeable guy or couldn't make it in industry. A lot of the early hires now at the top were literally college associates.
After 30+ years, they've aged into boomers and are directing around people that really would be better off simply being in charge. The talent coming into the Japanese video game industry is highly trained and highly disciplined, they're salaryman wagecucks that the original founders weren't.
Nojima and Nomura have written a lot of shit and remain oblivious to the slop they write.