Sean Dylan

You're conflating sales, player retention, and audience reception as if they're interchangeable. They're NOT. FFXIII launched in 2009. It's nearly 17 YEARS OLD. XIII-2 launched in 2011, making it nearly 15 YEARS OLD. Remake launched in 2020, making it 6.5 YEARS OLD. Rebirth? It launched in February 2024. It's only a little over 2.5 YEARS OLD. You're comparing games that have had vastly different amounts of time to accumulate sales. XIII-2's 3.1M figure dates back to January 2013, while Remake surpassed 7M in September 2023. Rebirth still has no officially disclosed worldwide lifetime sales figure. Your "barely 2M" claim is an estimate, NOT a confirmed figure. You're also ignoring exclusivity and install bases. Remake launched on PS4 with roughly 110M consoles available. Rebirth launched exclusively on PS5 with roughly 55M. That's 50% of the potential hardware audience at launch. This doesn't even go into percentage of retention. Ignoring such a massive difference makes these comparisons incredibly misleading. XIII-2 also launched on PS3 AND Xbox 360. Taking Circana's US dollar-sales rankings, comparing them to Tekken 8's worldwide unit sales, and somehow calculating Rebirth's sales doesn't work. Those aren't equivalent measurements. Now, about those Japanese sales drop-offs. Rebirth dropped 90.7% in 2nd-week physical sales. Remake dropped 89.9%, and Tekken 8 dropped 73.8%. SO WHAT? ALL 3 experienced substantial drop-offs. Those are PHYSICAL SALES figures measuring new purchases, NOT whether people enjoyed the games or continued playing them. If you're going to use sales declines or supposed retention problems to argue that Rebirth was rejected by its audience, then you HAVE to address the actual reception. Rebirth has a 92 Metacritic score, an 8.8 user score, and a 4.66/5 PlayStation Store rating from over 63,000 ratings, with 86% giving it 5 STARS. Critical reception is also strong across PC, Switch 2, and Xbox. You can't use sales drop-offs as evidence that people disliked Rebirth while conveniently ignoring the overwhelmingly positive reception from people who actually played it. And comparing estimated player activity or completion statistics across games of different lengths doesn't establish how many Remake players abandoned Rebirth, much less WHY. Square Enix initially reported Rebirth's sales as below expectations in 2024. But Hamaguchi said it was doing VERY WELL on PS5 and PC in September 2025. Then, in July 2026, he said Remake and Rebirth were selling "extremely well," with sales following Revelation's announcement "several times better than we had expected." After going multi-platform. You can't accept the earlier corporate statements when they support your argument and dismiss the later ones when they don't. Initial underperformance and subsequent sales improvements can BOTH be true. Comparing games nearly 17 years old to one barely over 2.5 years old, ignoring install bases and exclusivity, then using physical-sales declines and unverified estimates to imply audiences rejected it while dismissing glowing reviews isn't a serious analysis. SALES PERFORMANCE, PLAYER RETENTION, AND PLAYER SATISFACTION ARE 3 DIFFERENT THINGS.

Without objective parameters to measure, no you weren’t. Muted

This might be the worst endwalker quest ever

I kinda miss when transphobes would just proudly own their bigotry. Now it’s just “the writing!” and “the vocal performance!”

The ATB is turn-based. It's a metered representation of a characters speed stat which determines when they act in the queue. You delay your turn (traditionally by passing or defending with an input) by withholding an input since enemies will automatically act once it fills.

ATB is quite literally turn based. It was hardly a ‘gotcha’. If you’re sitting there waiting for your next turn, its turn based, the method in which you get your next turn is irrelevant. Your argument is super shallow.

Persona 6 has close to a million on Japan as well. All of this means nothing, the only real way to analize this is through total sales.

I just realized that if they canonize Yuffie and Vincent being in the party for the final dungeon in FF7RV (remember in the OG, they are 💯 optional), then FF7R trilogy cannot lead to DoC because in DoC, Yuffie and Vincent were in Midgar evacuating people during Meteorfall.

You telling me kefka never ascended to godhood or destroyed the planet? No wonder you harp on AR parse, certified tourist

youtu.be/4ABUQGFIFwk?t=210 You really need to look more closely, the buster is in the video you linked too, but I figured you'd try to weasel your way out of admitting that you were wrong yet again so I linked a very clear video of the cleave doing cleave damage.

You Green Parse as your median in savage, and according to yourself that's an 'F' and means you aren't carrying your weight. Stick to the 'casual' content you aren't ready for Savage.