The last widely successful Final Fantasy game was over 2 decades ago.

And yet people keep pretending this is a prestige franchise only to be let down time and time again. The weird thing is both Square-Enix and Final Fantasy fans seem to be under this same delusion. Worse than the Sonic cycle.

XI is an actual good MMO that just happens to be called "final fantasy"

FFXIV is literally just a final fantasy game with online elements