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someone on twitter has shared a somewhat quick rundown of what Square Enix will show at E3 in 3 weeks. Now, I am not calling this a true leak, and that's why I came here: to look for other evidences that supports this. Screenshot below.
 
(i'm typing this on mobile btw so sorry for any formatting errors)
 
edit: source is from a "leaked" ESA internal memo. Schedules for Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, and Square Enix got leaked. Nintendo got their's leaked in a separate memo.

Title says what I want to understand. My friend from Singapore can't access the add-ons from the Playstation store. But can on her US PSN account. Problem is, she bought the game on the Singapore server.

I'm not surprised at all... Japan has a thing when it comes to cover arts with just the logo on it.

Apart from Venitas' eyes getting a change, aqua's chin also made a change...
 
https://twitter.com/KH13com/status/820447716358688768
 
(wow, talk about a quick facial surgery, eh?)
 
In other news, crashing that was present in v1.0.0 is at its minimum now (we're not positive that crashing is completely gone now, but there hasn't been any that we caught wind of after the 1.0.1 update) but in exchange, there is a constant point in the game where it softlocks. Speedrunner mieDax found it, and the conversation is as follows: 
 
 
 
 
Yep... definitely fixing the right stuff :^)

Due to (un)fortunate shipping stuff, some people already have their English copy of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. Cyberman65 uploaded the english version of xBC, which can be found here:
 
 
 
 
He'll upload 0.2 at the English launch, which is understandable...
 
Sheesh, the internet really is a dangerous place...

Due to (un)fortunate shipping stuff, some people already have their English copy of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue. Cyberman65 uploaded the english version of xBC, which can be found here:
 
 
 
 
He'll upload 0.2 at the English launch, which is understandable...
 
Sheesh, the internet really is a dangerous place...

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

I've had enough. I'm probably too intoxicated in the current state of the KH community as of today. This forum thread hopes to be a platform for people to also voice their hearts out.
 
Complaint No. 1: People want KH3, and they want it now.
 
First of all, why? why would you want KH3 right now? I got two points to back this thing up. 
 
a. The story is not ready... yet.
"But we're already at KH3, what do you mean the story is not ready yet?" I'm willing to wager a challenge. Introduce a guy who has no idea of Kingdom Hearts and have him/her play only three games: Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 3D. Then, have him/her tell the entire lore. Impossible, right? Exactly. Some people have not played these "side-games" that they don't even care or bother to play it just because its not a numbered title. "It's a spin-off". Sure, as if Roxas' story as part of the Organization XIII is a "side-story". There are major parts of the lore that's been told in these "side-stories" but people have been too focused on wanting the story to go on that they missed major plot. Chances are, when KH3 comes out and we've played it all through, there's a chance that a number of people will go "what the flying firetruck was that?", and that's because they haven't played (or even read) the other games.
 
b. The game itself is not ready.
Just because there's screenshots and gameplay trailers doesn't mean that the game is in running condition already. Let's take Final Fantasy XV for example. Development of the game started in 2006 (man, we're old, the development started as KH2 came out in the west!) Through development constraints, shelving and all, the game was reintroduced at E3 2013 alongside Kingdom Hearts III. Fast forward to September 2014, when Nomura stepped down as the director for FFXV, Tabata took over, and development went full swing until it was released in November 2016. During that Nomura-Tabata directorship transition period, would you still think that Tabata carried on Nomura's vision of a Final Fantasy game? NO. The moment Nomura stepped down, Tabata already changed MOST of Nomura's works on Final Fantasy XV. As a result, FFXV technically only had a 2-year development cycle. As a result, there are major plot points, lots of crashes. They even announced that they'll add cutscenes that will fill in plot holes in later updates... THAT THING SHOULDN'T HAPPEN... AT ALL! [1]
 
See what my message there? Over the span of two short years of development time, SE was able to launch a game that is practically, incomplete. Kingdom Hearts III does not have a 10-year or a 2-year development cycle... Development started in 2012, right around the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D. and the reveal trailer you saw at E3 2013? That was all CGI. None of it was on Luminous engine or Unreal Engine 4. That was CGI. If you really want KH3 now, expect a de ja vu of what happened on FFXV. Period.
 
Complaint No. 2: For "KH Fans", Quality < Quantity.
 
This ties in well with my complaint no. 1. Ever since KH2, SE was not able to top the quality of the game that KH2 had. Days had this weird panel system, and the plot if kinda meh, Birth by Sleep is where they experimented (and failed miserably) on Command Style, then expanded the series more and confused people further, Re:Coded was meh if it weren't for the fact that its basically a refresher of KH1 and Re:CoM, 3D was just... TIME TRAVEL WOOHOO!!!!! and there's the abomination that is chi/Unchained chi... like, the series probably could stand alone without chi/Ux, but since the probability that everything regarding x/Ux will have its major connections on KH3, we have no other choice but to play it... or not, if you're not up to the cash-grab mechanics of the game... It has come to the point where people really just wants KH3 that they have zero idea what's going on with the lore.
 
Here's another point... 1.5 and 2.5... I appreciate the HD remasters but they're an outright abomination port-wise. Crashes, gameplay imbalances, they're shit, to be blunt. and people shrug it off like the remaster is perfect. The fact that people shrug the remaster's problems off is a concrete point that these so-called "fans" want more games, but not quality games. To quote Soraalam1 here: [2]
 
"...and the community is way too busy crying about a Kingdom Hearts 3 release date that they don't even care about the quality of the products that are being released to them to cause some kind of uproar or movement"
 
If 2.8 comes out and its another case of 1.5 and 2.5, the hopes of KH3 being an actual good game will get slimmer by the minute.
 
Complaint No. 3: Y U H8 Speedruns?
 
It has come to my attention that there are a group of people that hates KH speedruns... why? Why do you hate on a hobby that people have picked up? Is it because "they're breaking my game"? Oh please, grow up, there's barely any major glitch on KH series, I can probably count the glitches that speedrunners use here, and most of these aren't even actual glitches, more like exploits:
 
1. 1.5's Damage Storage Glitch
2. KH2FM/2.5's Cavern of Remembrance Skip
3. 2.5's BBSFM LV1 rebalance
4. Re:Coded's Game Over Stat Upgrade 
 
Most of these aren't even glitches, they're just exploits used... are they mad just because they can finish a game faster than others? Is that even a point to be mad about? They're probably not blatantly mad about you whining about rushing a KH3 release, but y'all are complaining about speedrunners. Pssh... Grow up.
 
Complaint No. 4: You unappreciative son of a b.
 
When Nomura made the year-end thank you video, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages are just... plain jane cancer, maybe even stage 4. Instead of thanking Nomura back for a great KH series they're all "KH3! KH3! Where's my KH3? Enough of the side-games, just give us KH3!" It resonates up till now, when the english KH pages are uploading pictures that hypes up the game via FB, Twitter and Instagram. I have no words, just... *facepalms* just shut the firetruck up you unappreciative sons of bitches.
 
There's my complaints, what's yours? Sound off in the comments!
 
Sources:
[1] http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1233181 - Its a rumor, but it turned out that the majority of that went true.
[2] 

It has come to my attention there SE still hasn't released any info regarding releasing a 2.8 soundtrack. Usually, its announced right around a couple of weeks before launch, and with there only 2 weeks and a day until the Japanese release comes out, there's still no info.
 
Here's my speculation regarding this issue:
 
1. 3D was made in 2012. To the eyes of Square Enix, 2012 is still fresh, therefore, there's no need for a remaster of the said game tracks.
2. PC chi / Unchained x uses existing tracks from various KH releases, mostly the remastered ones that we got in 1.5 and 2.5. Therefore, it stands to reason that they also won't make new tracks for the movie.
3. If 0.2 literally takes place in the Realm of-- I mean, Dark World, the majority of game will use three tracks: Night in the Dark Dream (RoD idle music), Night of Tragedy (RoD battle music), and Hunter of the Dark (Boss music). However, they might use other darkness-related themes for other parts of the game, but the chances of them making new music for 0.2 is slim. If any, they'll just take other music from the other KH games.
 
If there will be new music for 2.8, expect for it to be like, only a single disc UNLESS they miraculously decided to remaster all 3D music, then we're in good shape.
 
As far as 1.5+2.5 goes, its a fresh remaster of the tracks. They'll only re-release the soundtrack IF AND ONLY IF they'll remaster the tracks for Re:CoM and BbSFM, but the chances of that is damn slim.

It has come to my attention there SE still hasn't released any info regarding releasing a 2.8 soundtrack. Usually, its announced right around a couple of weeks before launch, and with there only 2 weeks and a day until the Japanese release comes out, there's still no info.
 
Here's my speculation regarding this issue:
 
1. 3D was made in 2012. To the eyes of Square Enix, 2012 is still fresh, therefore, there's no need for a remaster of the said game tracks.
2. PC chi / Unchained x uses existing tracks from various KH releases, mostly the remastered ones that we got in 1.5 and 2.5. Therefore, it stands to reason that they also won't make new tracks for the movie.
3. If 0.2 literally takes place in the Realm of-- I mean, Dark World, the majority of game will use three tracks: Night in the Dark Dream (RoD idle music), Night of Tragedy (RoD battle music), and Hunter of the Dark (Boss music). However, they might use other darkness-related themes for other parts of the game, but the chances of them making new music for 0.2 is slim. If any, they'll just take other music from the other KH games.
 
If there will be new music for 2.8, expect for it to be like, only a single disc UNLESS they miraculously decided to remaster all 3D music, then we're in good shape.
 
As far as 1.5+2.5 goes, its a fresh remaster of the tracks. They'll only re-release the soundtrack IF AND ONLY IF they'll remaster the tracks for Re:CoM and BbSFM, but the chances of that is damn slim.

Here's my two cents regarding this issue.
 
I had this small (like, very small) series of tweets with Dean (Soraalam1) regarding the 1.5+2.5 trailer. Me, Dean (and a couple of people who favored our opinions) HOPED (not WANTED) a longer trailer than that. It just doesn't make sense that the 1.5+2.5 trailer is only 35 seconds long. If it was, it might just as well be attached to the 2.8 Final Trailer that we got a week ago, just as a KH3 trailer was attached to the 2.8 reveal trailer back at TGS 2015.
 
(Trailer in question here:
) 
Then it hit me: This is a re-port of a port. What else is there to show? 60fps? Faster load times? There's not that much to show anymore. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that 35 seconds is enough, nbd.
 
Second one, is these naggers who are entitled for KH3. I'll be blunt here: people don't f**king know how business works. 2016 is the year for Final Fantasy (WoFF and FFXV). Square Enix IS NOT ENTITLED to release a trailer or any information every single chance they can. If I read an interview with Nomura right, it goes a little something like this: "I want to share information with you guys, but now is not the time for that." Meaning Nomura had to follow a procedure just so that he can release info.
 
Take the 2.8 Final Trailer for instance. The second part of that announcement (the Sora WoFF DLC, Simple and Clean -Ray of Hope Mix- iTunes EP pre-order, and the Special Edition KH 15th Anniversary PS4) did not come until noon that day because he had to wait for both SE's Business Division 3, Universal Music (Utada Hikaru's label company) AND Sony Japan are ready to release related info. Its a hierarchical process that Nomura followed. He did not simply went *poof* here's your KH stuff. He had to follow protocol.
 
Another point here, as the OP pointed out. is that the game has not been in development for 10 years. Sure, you've waited 10 years. but 10 years my ass. Didn't Re:CoM, Days, BbS, Coded and Re:coded cover any of that wait time? Those games are essential to the plot, not just "spin-offs" that prolongs the franchise just for them to earn cash. There was never an instance where a game that's made from scratch went under a development time for a very short time and came out clean and free of problems (looking at you, Ubisoft). There's a reason why FFXV got delayed, why every single SE game that's slated for release after XV got delayed. Because they wanted to perfect the game. You wanted FFXV back in September? Go ahead, you can have it. But as the 4chan thread (that was concluded as fake then but latter turned out to be at least 80% correct) said, FFXV was nowhere near done back in September. Want a broken game early. Fine by me, just don't go whining around and complaining.
 
With that in mind, Nomura wanted KH3 to be perfect. Because of that, he will NEVER release information that's far from its perfected state. That, and with the fact that he's gonna go out with his big guns come 2017 with KH's 15th anniversary, I'd like to tell these naggers one thing:
 
SIT THE F**K DOWN AND WAIT FOR INFO TO COME IN. 

Here's my two cents regarding this issue.
 
I had this small (like, very small) series of tweets with Dean (Soraalam1) regarding the 1.5+2.5 trailer. Me, Dean (and a couple of people who favored our opinions) HOPED (not WANTED) a longer trailer than that. It just doesn't make sense that the 1.5+2.5 trailer is only 35 seconds long. If it was, it might just as well be attached to the 2.8 Final Trailer that we got a week ago, just as a KH3 trailer was attached to the 2.8 reveal trailer back at TGS 2015.
 
(Trailer in question here:
) 
Then it hit me: This is a re-port of a port. What else is there to show? 60fps? Faster load times? There's not that much to show anymore. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that 35 seconds is enough, nbd.
 
Second one, is these naggers who are entitled for KH3. I'll be blunt here: people don't f**king know how business works. 2016 is the year for Final Fantasy (WoFF and FFXV). Square Enix IS NOT ENTITLED to release a trailer or any information every single chance they can. If I read an interview with Nomura right, it goes a little something like this: "I want to share information with you guys, but now is not the time for that." Meaning Nomura had to follow a procedure just so that he can release info.
 
Take the 2.8 Final Trailer for instance. The second part of that announcement (the Sora WoFF DLC, Simple and Clean -Ray of Hope Mix- iTunes EP pre-order, and the Special Edition KH 15th Anniversary PS4) did not come until noon that day because he had to wait for both SE's Business Division 3, Universal Music (Utada Hikaru's label company) AND Sony Japan are ready to release related info. Its a hierarchical process that Nomura followed. He did not simply went *poof* here's your KH stuff. He had to follow protocol.
 
Another point here, as the OP pointed out. is that the game has not been in development for 10 years. Sure, you've waited 10 years. but 10 years my ass. Didn't Re:CoM, Days, BbS, Coded and Re:coded cover any of that wait time? Those games are essential to the plot, not just "spin-offs" that prolongs the franchise just for them to earn cash. There was never an instance where a game that's made from scratch went under a development time for a very short time and came out clean and free of problems (looking at you, Ubisoft). There's a reason why FFXV got delayed, why every single SE game that's slated for release after XV got delayed. Because they wanted to perfect the game. You wanted FFXV back in September? Go ahead, you can have it. But as the 4chan thread (that was concluded as fake then but latter turned out to be at least 80% correct) said, FFXV was nowhere near done back in September. Want a broken game early. Fine by me, just don't go whining around and complaining.
 
With that in mind, Nomura wanted KH3 to be perfect. Because of that, he will NEVER release information that's far from its perfected state. That, and with the fact that he's gonna go out with his big guns come 2017 with KH's 15th anniversary, I'd like to tell these naggers one thing:
 
SIT THE F**K DOWN AND WAIT FOR INFO TO COME IN. 

Here's my two cents regarding this issue.
 
I had this small (like, very small) series of tweets with Dean (Soraalam1) regarding the 1.5+2.5 trailer. Me, Dean (and a couple of people who favored our opinions) HOPED (not WANTED) a longer trailer than that. It just doesn't make sense that the 1.5+2.5 trailer is only 35 seconds long. If it was, it might just as well be attached to the 2.8 Final Trailer that we got a week ago, just as a KH3 trailer was attached to the 2.8 reveal trailer back at TGS 2015.
 
(Trailer in question here:
) 
Then it hit me: This is a re-port of a port. What else is there to show? 60fps? Faster load times? There's not that much to show anymore. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that 35 seconds is enough, nbd.
 
Second one, is these naggers who are entitled for KH3. I'll be blunt here: people don't f**king know how business works. 2016 is the year for Final Fantasy (WoFF and FFXV). Square Enix IS NOT ENTITLED to release a trailer or any information every single chance they can. If I read an interview with Nomura right, it goes a little something like this: "I want to share information with you guys, but now is not the time for that." Meaning Nomura had to follow a procedure just so that he can release info.
 
Take the 2.8 Final Trailer for instance. The second part of that announcement (the Sora WoFF DLC, Simple and Clean -Ray of Hope Mix- iTunes EP pre-order, and the Special Edition KH 15th Anniversary PS4) did not come until noon that day because he had to wait for both SE's Business Division 3, Universal Music (Utada Hikaru's label company) AND Sony Japan are ready to release related info. Its a hierarchical process that Nomura followed. He did not simply went *poof* here's your KH stuff. He had to follow protocol.
 
Another point here, as the OP pointed out. is that the game has not been in development for 10 years. Sure, you've waited 10 years. but 10 years my ass. Didn't Re:CoM, Days, BbS, Coded and Re:coded cover any of that wait time? Those games are essential to the plot, not just "spin-offs" that prolongs the franchise just for them to earn cash. There was never an instance where a game that's made from scratch went under a development time for a very short time and came out clean and free of problems (looking at you, Ubisoft). There's a reason why FFXV got delayed, why every single SE game that's slated for release after XV got delayed. Because they wanted to perfect the game. You wanted FFXV back in September? Go ahead, you can have it. But as the 4chan thread (that was concluded as fake then but latter turned out to be at least 80% correct) said, FFXV was nowhere near done back in September. Want a broken game early. Fine by me, just don't go whining around and complaining.
 
With that in mind, Nomura wanted KH3 to be perfect. Because of that, he will NEVER release information that's far from its perfected state. That, and with the fact that he's gonna go out with his big guns come 2017 with KH's 15th anniversary, I'd like to tell these naggers one thing:
 
SIT THE F**K DOWN AND WAIT FOR INFO TO COME IN. 

Here's my two cents regarding this issue.
 
I had this small (like, very small) series of tweets with Dean (Soraalam1) regarding the 1.5+2.5 trailer. Me, Dean (and a couple of people who favored our opinions) HOPED (not WANTED) a longer trailer than that. It just doesn't make sense that the 1.5+2.5 trailer is only 35 seconds long. If it was, it might just as well be attached to the 2.8 Final Trailer that we got a week ago, just as a KH3 trailer was attached to the 2.8 reveal trailer back at TGS 2015.
 
(Trailer in question here:
) 
Then it hit me: This is a re-port of a port. What else is there to show? 60fps? Faster load times? There's not that much to show anymore. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that 35 seconds is enough, nbd.
 
Second one, is these naggers who are entitled for KH3. I'll be blunt here: people don't f**king know how business works. 2016 is the year for Final Fantasy (WoFF and FFXV). Square Enix IS NOT ENTITLED to release a trailer or any information every single chance they can. If I read an interview with Nomura right, it goes a little something like this: "I want to share information with you guys, but now is not the time for that." Meaning Nomura had to follow a procedure just so that he can release info.
 
Take the 2.8 Final Trailer for instance. The second part of that announcement (the Sora WoFF DLC, Simple and Clean -Ray of Hope Mix- iTunes EP pre-order, and the Special Edition KH 15th Anniversary PS4) did not come until noon that day because he had to wait for both SE's Business Division 3, Universal Music (Utada Hikaru's label company) AND Sony Japan are ready to release related info. Its a hierarchical process that Nomura followed. He did not simply went *poof* here's your KH stuff. He had to follow protocol.
 
Another point here, as the OP pointed out. is that the game has not been in development for 10 years. Sure, you've waited 10 years. but 10 years my ass. Didn't Re:CoM, Days, BbS, Coded and Re:coded cover any of that wait time? Those games are essential to the plot, not just "spin-offs" that prolongs the franchise just for them to earn cash. There was never an instance where a game that's made from scratch went under a development time for a very short time and came out clean and free of problems (looking at you, Ubisoft). There's a reason why FFXV got delayed, why every single SE game that's slated for release after XV got delayed. Because they wanted to perfect the game. You wanted FFXV back in September? Go ahead, you can have it. But as the 4chan thread (that was concluded as fake then but latter turned out to be at least 80% correct) said, FFXV was nowhere near done back in September. Want a broken game early. Fine by me, just don't go whining around and complaining.
 
With that in mind, Nomura wanted KH3 to be perfect. Because of that, he will NEVER release information that's far from its perfected state. That, and with the fact that he's gonna go out with his big guns come 2017 with KH's 15th anniversary, I'd like to tell these naggers one thing:
 
SIT THE F**K DOWN AND WAIT FOR INFO TO COME IN. 

Here's my two cents regarding this issue.
 
I had this small (like, very small) series of tweets with Dean (Soraalam1) regarding the 1.5+2.5 trailer. Me, Dean (and a couple of people who favored our opinions) HOPED (not WANTED) a longer trailer than that. It just doesn't make sense that the 1.5+2.5 trailer is only 35 seconds long. If it was, it might just as well be attached to the 2.8 Final Trailer that we got a week ago, just as a KH3 trailer was attached to the 2.8 reveal trailer back at TGS 2015.
 
(Trailer in question here:
) 
Then it hit me: This is a re-port of a port. What else is there to show? 60fps? Faster load times? There's not that much to show anymore. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that 35 seconds is enough, nbd.
 
Second one, is these naggers who are entitled for KH3. I'll be blunt here: people don't f**king know how business works. 2016 is the year for Final Fantasy (WoFF and FFXV). Square Enix IS NOT ENTITLED to release a trailer or any information every single chance they can. If I read an interview with Nomura right, it goes a little something like this: "I want to share information with you guys, but now is not the time for that." Meaning Nomura had to follow a procedure just so that he can release info.
 
Take the 2.8 Final Trailer for instance. The second part of that announcement (the Sora WoFF DLC, Simple and Clean -Ray of Hope Mix- iTunes EP pre-order, and the Special Edition KH 15th Anniversary PS4) did not come until noon that day because he had to wait for both SE's Business Division 3, Universal Music (Utada Hikaru's label company) AND Sony Japan are ready to release related info. Its a hierarchical process that Nomura followed. He did not simply went *poof* here's your KH stuff. He had to follow protocol.
 
Another point here, as the OP pointed out. is that the game has not been in development for 10 years. Sure, you've waited 10 years. but 10 years my ass. Didn't Re:CoM, Days, BbS, Coded and Re:coded cover any of that wait time? Those games are essential to the plot, not just "spin-offs" that prolongs the franchise just for them to earn cash. There was never an instance where a game that's made from scratch went under a development time for a very short time and came out clean and free of problems (looking at you, Ubisoft). There's a reason why FFXV got delayed, why every single SE game that's slated for release after XV got delayed. Because they wanted to perfect the game. You wanted FFXV back in September? Go ahead, you can have it. But as the 4chan thread (that was concluded as fake then but latter turned out to be at least 80% correct) said, FFXV was nowhere near done back in September. Want a broken game early. Fine by me, just don't go whining around and complaining.
 
With that in mind, Nomura wanted KH3 to be perfect. Because of that, he will NEVER release information that's far from its perfected state. That, and with the fact that he's gonna go out with his big guns come 2017 with KH's 15th anniversary, I'd like to tell these naggers one thing:
 
SIT THE F**K DOWN AND WAIT FOR INFO TO COME IN. 

With JP version 1.3.0 comes a pretty good feature wherein if you click on a medal, their voice clips will play (if applicable). So I got this idea: "What if I extract the voice clips for other uses?" So, with an auxiliary cable and Audacity, I was able to extract all 14 voice clips from 14 voiced medals! Do note that the echo in the clips are embedded into the clips themselves. You don't notice it in-game because of the BGM playing. I only extracted the voice clips directly, I haven't modified it to remove the echo, but feel free to do so
 
More will definitely be added into the collection as more voiced medals gets released.
 
EDIT: Files have been updated, re-recorded into FLAC format for uncompressed quality. Also added Riku HD, Maleficent, and Xemnas Illustrated to the archive. as for Mickey HD, he's not voiced but his effect is that if the medal is in the player's deck of the keyblade they're currently using, KH3D version of Dearly beloved will play on the HOME screen.
 
Link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7Zx7dU-OsKxYW85UjNCZ2FnRkk&usp=sharing

With JP version 1.3.0 comes a pretty good feature wherein if you click on a medal, their voice clips will play (if applicable). So I got this idea: "What if I extract the voice clips for other uses?" So, with an auxiliary cable and Audacity, I was able to extract all 14 voice clips from 14 voiced medals! Do note that the echo in the clips are embedded into the clips themselves. You don't notice it in-game because of the BGM playing. I only extracted the voice clips directly, I haven't modified it to remove the echo, but feel free to do so
 
More will definitely be added into the collection as more voiced medals gets released.
 
EDIT: Files have been updated, re-recorded into FLAC format for uncompressed quality. Also added Riku HD, Maleficent, and Xemnas Illustrated to the archive. as for Mickey HD, he's not voiced but his effect is that if the medal is in the player's deck of the keyblade they're currently using, KH3D version of Dearly beloved will play on the HOME screen.
 
Link: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7Zx7dU-OsKxYW85UjNCZ2FnRkk&usp=sharing