Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Celebration: "Major Flop"

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Earlier tonight, Square Enix held a Final Fantasy 20th Anniversary Celebration at San Francisco's Sony Metreon. The event celebrated 20 years since the first FF hit the Nintendo Entertainment System. Hours before, fans started lining up, including blogger and Final Fantasy fan Bryan Veloso. That's Bryan in the pic. He wasn't able to take any photos inside the event, because Square Enix wouldn't allow that. Which begs the question: why? If it's a success, pictures of the actual event are obviously better than of some dude in front of a sign. Bryan's opinion:

So all in all, it was a flop. A MAJOR flop. I love you Squeenix, but I think you have a problem with the word celebration. Remember the party you held for the Japanese? Yeah, that's something that we Americans (who apparently love everything big) would have loved. But no, you give us a picture, old FMV footage and 6 PSP demo stations after waiting in the windy city of the west for well over two hours (even more than that for the people who got there first). Sure it was a launch party for the PSP version of Final Fantasy, but if you're going to use the 20th Anniversary Celebration in the title of the event, then I for one think that there should have been a little more than goofy Playstation store employees jumping over each other in front of a green screen.
Anyway, as I said, we were both extremely underwhelmed, close to the point of regret. But we're Final Fantasy fans, and always will be. We'll buy your games, just hesitate to come to your celebrations.
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That's just one blogger's take on the event, and I know others like Chris Kohler were in attendance. Not sure what Bryan was expecting exactly. I mean, I went to that Final Fantasy Party in Chiba and had a grand old time. Doubt Square Enix could cram that kind of excitement into the Sony Metreon. Doubt anyone could. Brian Ashcraft
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