The new age of gamers who aren't obsessed with the game aren't going to go out in drones to buy an old JRPG. Such a game would basically be geared at all the people who fell in love with the PSX version. Unfortunately, many of the people who are interested will use one of the following reasons to justify pirating it instead of buying it:
(i) I already bought the game once.
(ii) They changed the game too much / didn't make it exactly how I wanted
(iii) They didn't change enough
(iv) New Square sucks so I'm not giving them money
(v) I'm poor
(These people would all play through the entire game of course!)
In this day and age, I think designing a game for profit -- especially with Square's production values -- is a recipe for disaster when the demographic of a game is mainly people who've already played it.
Are either of my two premises flawed?
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