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Final Fantasy series
[edit]Final Fantasy (ファイナルファンタジー, Fainaru Fantajī) is a science fiction media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and developed and owned by Square Enix (formerly Square). The franchise centers on a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video games (RPGs). The eponymous first game in the series, published in 1987, was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last-ditch effort in the game industry; the title was a success and spawned sequels. The video game series has since branched into numerous other genres, and has been commercially and critically successful; it is Square Enix's best selling video game franchise, with more than 130 million units sold, and is one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.
- Contributor(s): PresN, ProtoDrake, Sjones23 (Before 2010: Guyinblack25, Gary, Kung Fu Man, Deckiller, The Prince of Darkness, Ryu Kaze, Judgesurreal777)
- (Previous nominations can be found at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics/Final Fantasy titles)
Final Fantasy has been a frequent visitor to FTC- the original Final Fantasy titles topic was one of a set of 5 topics tied for the record of the second FT ever in November 2006. Two supplementary nominations later, it was demoted in June 2008 when FT standards started to require that all articles be at least GAs, and the topic couldn't measure up. It took 7 years for all of the ducks to get in a row, and it was re-promoted to FT in December 2015 ; a year and change later in April 2017 it was demoted for not getting Final Fantasy XV to GA. Turn the clock forward a year to today, and XV is a GA (and VII an FA), so this topic gets to make its 7th appearance on this page!
Representing 12 years of work by 10 primary editors, the "Final Fantasy series" topic includes every main numbered Final Fantasy game—one through fifteen—worked up to at least GA level, with enough stars to make it an FT. (The full, expanded Final Fantasy franchise includes over 100 games, and is way out of scope.) Many of the original editors have left us, but several editors, including ProtoDrake, Sjones23, and myself, have kept the articles alive since, and the older FAs have had successful FARs. Thanks all for reviewing, again... again. --PresN 17:58, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support - wow, what a large amount of work! Congratulations on getting it here again, until the next time! Kees08 (Talk) 20:26, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support - damn fine work to all the editors who still have time to keep up with all this! Thanks for the memories. Axem Titanium (talk) 05:00, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support Rreagan007 (talk) 20:18, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support Awesome effort. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:55, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support - Looks great! Nice to have our flagship topic back, and meeting all featured topic requirements :) Great job everyone! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:54, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Support: Great work with this! Aoba47 (talk) 21:23, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Featured Topic.--十八 18:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)