Holy shit. I generally like modern Square Enix and love both the FF XIII series and the entirety of the Kingdom Hearts series (not just the original game), and even I'm finding these audio drama spoilers horrifyingly dumb and story-ruining. If they're accurate, I've gone from "would buy an FF X-3 day one" to "please please please S-E don't ever make this."
I can't believe just how fucking terrible this sounds. I loved XIII-2 so much from a gameplay standpoint I could put up with the "lol time travel" story, and I've generally been able to enjoy the XIII series' story and characters despite all the obvious issues. But this... this is too much. X is my favorite Final Fantasy and, taken as a whole, X and X-2 represent one of my favorite stories in gaming. What's happening here with a potential X-3 is just... it's The 3rd Birthday levels of shark-jumping, maybe even worse.
And I didn't think it could ever get worse than The 3rd Birthday.
If X-3 ends up being made according to these audio drama spoilers as they're being reported right now, I am perfectly comfortable with cutting losses and saying that the FF X story ends at X-2's perfect ending for me.
I'll wait until the English version of the audio drama comes out before making any final judgments, though.