The pragmatism of the article was a little debilitating XD but i do get your point. My point however, is that the cast and the story (oh the story) is strong enough to stand on its own. Yes, we don't really NEED FF characters but no one can deny that fighting alongside cloud, even for a very brief moment, was just pure awesomeness condensed on your TV screen and that Auron's combination moves were the very best apart from Riku. Which brings me to my point, the only constants that need to stay for Kingdom Hearts to be credible are the few very relevant Disney and FF chracters. Donald Goofy, Mickey, Yensid(he is disney is he?), maleficient and pete for Disney and at most Cloud and Leon(yes i called him Leon deal with it :P) for FF.
Bottomline; I think that kingdom hearts has evolved to a point where its own assets like the amazing gameplay, godly graphics and unqeustionable style (cross out nothing) can sell the series by itself. If ever the deal should break and Disney would be idiots to do that, Square should definitely make another series along the lines of KH (FF Versus XIII *wink* *wink*)
I wasn't trying to say I don't love the inclusion of the FF characters, because I do! Of course, I'd love to see some pre VI characters on the roster... but if the addition of any FF character is creating even the smallest blockade to development, I say cut 'em all loose.
Irregardless of how much more sense it would make to the universe, I'd rather hear Mr. Toad, Baloo, Robin Hood, or The Goddamn Aristocats babble on at me about the forces of light and dark than wait another half a decade for a third game.
Maybe the final fantasy characters didn't matter much but then without them, where would square be involved in this kingdom hearts game? If you eliminate Square Enix from this game there goes the amazing in depth story telling that only Square can deliver. Just a thought but maybe if they found a better balance between the two, (I don't understand this legal crisis to be honest so don't consider that in my arguement) maybe it would make the series even better rather than disregarding FF. I think FF makes it better than Disney makes it, I mean who wants to see a game all about Mickey Mouse running around killing stuff when you can have Cloud do it? Maybe more cameos like Zack Fair? I don't know I guess, KH has it's own amazing story and so much they could put to it, it's just so open to things like more keyblade wars and legends and it's own anthology.
I deny my post, sorry I didn't fully understand the article till reading Chris' comment, true, maybe the Final Fantasy world is causing too many legal problems and stalls. But the gameplay is basically all about final fantasy obviously so you can't eliminate things like Curaga and I like how the summonings are disney characters which is clever. But true this game has soo much going on for it it could stand alone as a different entity from Final Fantasy and Disney alltogether and it would be foolish for Square and Disney not to figure something out to keep this thing alive. It would be like the next final fantasy, they could make so many titles based off it and cash in so much as long as the story never faltered and the clever mix of FF and Disney continued, they defintiely need to figure a better thing out.