inal Fantasy XV has to be perfect. After a decade of development hell, a name change from Versus XIII to XV, a complete mechanical overhaul and a director swap, die-hard series fans aren't just hungry for the game; they're reeling.

Many players who were excited about Final Fantasy Versus XIII as teenagers remain interested in Final Fantasy XV as adults. After all, the Final Fantasy series debuted in 1987 and played a pivotal role in plenty of fans' young lives. But as the years have dragged on, a ripple of discontent has nudged against this fierce loyalty. In the decade of delays, some longtime players have simply declared the franchise dead.
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Director Hajime Tabata is aware that some people consider Final Fantasy to be "over the hill." That's one reason he's so focused on attracting new players with FFXV when it finally hits PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Sept. 30th. Tabata even once considered getting rid of the numeral part of the title entirely, fearing it might scare off fresh faces.

"For XV, I sort of changed my mindset to make our aim of getting new players, and growing this global brand and appealing to sort of the mass-market new users," Tabata says.

Tabata doesn't want to alienate old fans, but he knows that new people need to dive into FFXV for the franchise to continue growing. It's a tricky balance. He's taking cues on how to market FFXV from Western developers, specifically The Witcher studio CD Projekt Red and Fallout house Bethesda. He's looked at the size of the audiences they target, how they create their advertising campaigns and how they handle localization.

The Square Enix team working on FFXV, called Business Division 2, is 300 people strong, and some of them are international, meaning they have direct experience in Western markets. Tabata sees this as a positive.

"With XV I think we've really strived to get the point across to especially our traditional, older fans that we are modernizing," Tabata says. "We are taking modern approaches so that they can hold interest in this title."

Last week, Tabata and Business Division 2 confronted their skeptical fans head on.www.ff14buy.com

Square Enix held a massive event at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, where it promised to reveal a ton of new information about the game. Six thousand fans showed up and went wild as Kinda Funny co-founders Greg Miller and Tim Gettys unveiled an animated prequel named Brotherhood, a 3D tie-in movie called Kingsglaive and a real-life FFXV-styled Audi R8.

A-list actors Lena Headey (Game of Thrones), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings) each have roles in Kingsglaive; Headey and Paul showed up in person to talk about the movie while Bean provided his insight in a recorded segment. FFXV's theme song is a cover of "Stand By Me" by Florence and the Machine, and Square Enix showed off a mini-documentary about its recording, starring lead singer Florence Welch.

The event was an apology and an invitation for long-suffering fans to get excited about FFXV again, all wrapped up in an unprecedented AAA spectacle. www.ff14buy.com

The show's main conceit was a big red button that, once pressed, would finally reveal the game's release date. However, the date had leaked online just hours earlier. That didn't stop the crowd from cheering like mad when "Sept. 30, 2016" finally flashed onstage amid a hail of confetti and music. "Apology accepted," the crowd roared.