>>12124098
>If you look carefully, you can see the exact moment the DQ devs felt threatened by Final Fantasy.

And that moment wasn't DQ3. If anything it's the contrary, DQ3's influence was all over FF1, despite both games coming out only a month apart. DQ3 having classes was known for a LONG time before release, during an entire year before release a lot of prerelease content was shared in Famitsu hyping up the game in every single issue (and it's actually astonishing how close to final all the info and screenshots are even what dates way back). Meanwhile iirc it wasn't until the SFC days that FF started having their own "FF times" in Famitsu, which directly copied the "DQ times" that had been going on for a long time.

FF1 sold 500k copies in Japan as opposed to the 3.8 millions of DQ3. It wasn't until FF5 and 6 that sales of both series started to get close.