If I see it right, Bravely Default was made by the same team, which made Final Fantasy Four Heroes of Light (they made also the remakes of III and IV, if I'm correct with that). The team is good because they follow a reasonable line in style and gamplay. I hope SE let them make more games.
However, everyone has said to Sqaurenix "Please no, don't go this way!" and they have said "Shut up! We know what you want."
And now SquareEnix asking themselves "What the hell is wrong with our customers?"
The main problem from which they suffer now is, that they have abused the name Final Fantasy 'YZ' to sell their games (or experiments). Nobody would had had a problem back then, if they had announced FF XI as FF Online (and FF XIV as FF Online II). But no, they wanted to sell it also to people, who aren't actually interested in online gaming, because these people have started to create a FF collection. The next stupid step was to make a successor to a FF game: FF X-2 (or Final Freakshow X-2). Except of the nice battle system everything was nothing more as a bad joke. Then FF XII had finally split the fanbase, while I think the battle system is the f*cking best in it's genre, many people didn't like the westernization of the gameplay. DQ8 (the best PS2 RPG) has give me some hope, that SE has one good franchise in the JRPG genre at last, but with DQ9 they have teach me a better lesson - multiplayer instead of a story with some charming and lovely characters. Why didn't they implement the multiplayer in FFXIII? The battle system would be great for it. I honestly like the different versions of the battle system, but my problem is that the way of the storytelling has decreased with every FF after IX.
Square Enix is arrogant, they always were. But now, on a time where they aren't the only big company, which makes big RPGs, these arrogance breaking them their neck and they struggle and don't know what to do. Instead of hearing to thier fans, they go their way with half opened ears and looking for the next big moneymaker. I don't know how often I have bought the same product from them, because they have made a small change (I currently have two versions of Deus EX Human Revolution in my Steam library, off course I had to pay again for the bug fixed version).
They still making great games, but the time were the name Square stands for 'High Quality Gaming' is gone. How can I love a game, if the Devs didn't make it with love?