Look Ma, I'm witty!
So I was lurking around the gamefaqs PE 3rd Birthday forum, and I post this:
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[QUOTED!]They reassigned or fired everybody with talent who didn't otherwise quit is what happened.
Seriously, think of your favorite SquareSoft game. Pick anything.
If your favorite SquareSoft game is anything other than Final Fantasy 10 or one of the 'Saga' games the director, composer and writer have been fired, quit or banished to the remake basement.[QUOTED!]
This.
The FF dream team was always Amano/Sakaguchi/Uematsu. The second that changed, FF started to suck, massively. 7 was still reasonably good even without Amano (and is single-handedly Squenix's most milked sacred cow).
And Enix did make plenty of very good games. It just never focused on the outside-of-Japan market as much as Square did. Then, after the fusion, they realized they were sitting on a huge pile of money and decided to start assimilating every minor developer they could get their hands on. This pretty much killed what little competition Square and Enix alone had in the market, while each component company already enjoyed the laurels of being badass in their own rights with hit after hit in their curriculum. THEN, they realized that they didn't have to put as much effort into the game when they could simply staple the name "Final Fantasy" to a random piece of crap once a year and make a killing off it.
No competition at all is just as bad as or worse than cutthroat competition. It's that simple.
As for whoever said that FFXIII's soundtrack is better than Uematsu productions: go listen to Darkness and Starlight. If you're still not convinced, kindly do the gene pool a favor and go eat shotgun bullets. Yesterday. Preferrably by pulling the trigger.[/spoiler]
At first, I'd suggested he deep-throated a shotgun. That got modded, so I changed it to the current version.
Then I got modded too. Then I appealed.
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Frankly, I have not been presented with proof my post is offensive, in that it doesn't clearly trip any of the definitions stated. It contains no mention of offense to race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender. It does not use vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language. Certainly no rumor about rape or incest. I'll admit the same post earlier with the mention of deepthroating did violate the TOU, but I'm not entirely sure how this does. [/spoiler]
Mod response:
[spoiler]Telling a user to kill themselves just because they have a different opinion than yours is offensive. Do not tell people to shoot themselves.[/spoiler]
My response:
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So basically any other way to convince them to remove themselves from the gene pool is fine?[/spoiler]
Or, alternatively:
[spoiler]Why, you afraid he might grow the brain cells needed to follow instructions?[/spoiler]