You act like them squeezing the crap out of it is such a bad idea...
So you love the game, but would rather not see it anywhere else? Usually when you like things, you want more of it.
And of course, when Square gives the people what they want, they're viewed as greedy savages only looking to make a buck (which, yes, that probally was in their mind, but whats wrong with that? You get what you want, they get what they want, end of transaction).
Build it, and they will piss on it. -_-
BUTI will agree (and I think I've said this before), that this little Vincent 3rd person shooter thing is just a little farfetched, and I honestly doubt it will play good/do good. Usually when you take a franchise and switch genres, it gets ugly.
I.E.: Tekken switching to action/adventure with Death by Degrees, Mortal Kombat switching to action/adventure, Virtua Fighter switching to action/adventure/rpg (Who see's a pattern?
), Sonic with racing/pinball (though I did enjoy that pinball game, not alot of people did), Resident Evil with 1st person shooter/1st person adventure.
Seldomly do you have a case of franchises diving into other genres and being sucessful. All I can think of is Mario with the endless sucessful crossovers, such as Mario Kart.
So, you can see that history doesnt favor this game.