In one fell swoop, Square has ruined a major portion of the hype with the announcement of this long-awaited remake becoming episodic content. The hype was real, and even as I sat at my computer at the press reveal I could feel the money in my wallet slowly creeping towards my computer screen, eager to feed the creation I had waited so long for.
It seemed like the time for celebration was nigh these past few days, as news of a remake finally broke past Square’s lips and was revealed to the world, with first impressions appearing almost exactly as people expected them to. It remains a hallmark of the gaming world, next to Tomb Raider, Earthbound, and the rest, and people have been clamoring for years to have the fantastic sci-fi story and compelling characters brought to modern consoles in order to play one of their favorite gaming experiences with the graphical and musical enhancements that technology has brought us. I can’t think of a single gamer in my social circles that hasn’t at least recognized how groundbreaking the game was, even if they didn’t play it themselves. This is perhaps the final boss of disgusting business practices in gaming, carving up something that was guaranteed to make a massive profit, because let’s face it, who wasn’t going to buy the Final Fantasy VII remake, and serving it up as a ‘more digestible’ experience to players in order to shill for those sweet, sweet Season Pass dollars.įinal Fantasy VII is one of the crown jewels of gaming, a title that has stood out in the hearts of gamers for decades, the very definition of a classic RPG title. If you’ll excuse the harsh tone, from a consumer standpoint, this news is absolutely wretched. In perhaps one of the finest examples of corporate greed in gaming (well, outside of everything Konami has been doing,) it was just revealed that the highly-anticipated Final Fantasy VII remake will not be shipped as a whole product, but instead in bite-sized chunks, because of course the most popular title in Square’s library needed to make more money than was already anticipated.