After getting my hands on it, I think the reason is probably because the introduction of the game took me about TWENTY HOURS of gameplay.

It took 15 hours to get the first 3 summons, and then the last 3 summons took around 1 hour...weird. Free-roam was locked until after the 22nd hour of play.

ya couldn't set your teams until the 19th hour....

last but not least, after gaining the ability to free roam, 70% of the enemies around you would whup the players arse. Painfully.

The game is good...but the intro..WAS WAAAY TOO LONG. >_<

I believe the majority of the ppl who quit havent reached the free roam part of the game yet.

Thanks for this.. I get so bored during Intro's. I was thinking about gettin this but this helps alot. thanks!

Chp.11 is the worst chapter ever.

You have to grind so much to stand a chance later in the game. I like the battle system, but they take 5 or more minutes at this stage of the game and this screen will appear VERY OFTEN.

I had no complaints with ff13. the intro was a bit drawn out, would have been nice to not be restricted for so long, but it was all story driven. I never noticed the overpowered monsters in the end game, alot of the monsters are meant to be killed after you beat the game, you get to restart the game right before the last boss and can go back and do whatever you want with acess to stronger abilities. but i was pleased with it, i played it from start to finish without getting bored and playing something else. i might be the minority but i enjoyed the game quite a bit.