Did Ff16 Flop?

I actually appreciate the M-rating of FFXVI. It's a big risk, doing that. Cuts down on advertising opportunities, and they managed (imo) the most interesting single-player setting in the series. Though, I think the reason I like the setting so much is because 90% of it is literally taken from Chains of Promathia.

What I think really holds the story back is it's handling of characters. Everyone who is good in the story is "good" in the same way, if that makes sense. To compare FFXVI's characters to Chains of Promathia, there is just WAY more depth in CoP. Selh'teus is good, but he's also triggering a genocide by Emptiness in the Outlands. This is why we help him sometimes but we (Prishe) stop him other times. Bahamut is bad because he plans on killing everyone, but we learn he's actually the biggest homie of FFXI in the epilogue.

Why is everyone who supports Clive's views on Bearers also supportive of the whole "destroying Mothercrystals" thing? If this was a FFXI storyline, Cid/Clive would have triggered a civil war in the hideout when he went public with his plans of destroying mothercrystals. Almost every ally in FFXVI's story is cartoonishly good, and many enemies are cartoonishly evil.

Fair enough. I didn't like the trailer neither. Aside from the usual pretty visuals, this is probably their worst teaser trailer yet, only rivaled by Dawntrail's (but that's a low bar anyways).

Yeah its pretty bad for a trailer and I liked the one for Shadowbringer/endwalker. What a shame where that game finally gets more expansions than XI, we deserve one too!

Why games flop

Regarding the 14 trailer that was just posted, it was posted without context. This is the first trailer for expansion to tease it, shown at the first of 3 fanfest. Each fanfest the trailer evolves and so does the music until it reaches its final form at the final Japanese Fanfest. Basically what you are listening to is an incomplete sample of the direction they plan for the expansion's main theme.