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Darc Requiem on 26 November 2011
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brendude13 said:
Darc Requiem said:
brendude13 said:

Why do you get so touchy everytime someone mentions this?

Being the publisher of a game means you usually have some rights to it, just like Mass Effect, you know, the game in your avatar. If you don't think SONY has any rights to FFVII in some way or another then post information proving this, rather than posting three "facepalm" GIF's.

Because I've been seeing people repeat the lie for 14 years. The gifs adequately express my annoyance. Using your broken logic, Nintendo would own the Final Fantasy franchise because the published the original game. There is a difference between publishing an IP and actually owning it. You bring up Mass Effect but neglect to mention that MS funded the development and published the original Mass Effect. MS only signed a deal for the first game and EA bought Bioware in the interim. Which is why EA owns the rights to ME2 and ME3 but not ME1.

Own the Final Fantasy franchise? When did I say that? Squaresoft and Nintendo were never really that close I believe, all the Final Fantasy games were published by SQUARE. I never commented on how closely involved SONY was with the production of Final Fantasy VII, you did, all I asked was that you provide some facts before you start belittling people without backing up your claim whatsoever.

As for Mass Effect, I already knew that. Why did you think I bought it up? Mass Effect was funded and published by MS, in the same way that Final Fantasy VII COULD have been funded and published by SONY. I know that FFVII was published by SONY in certain regions, as for how closely they were involved in the production or funding of the game, I don't know. That could decide if SONY has rights to the game or not, which is why I asked you for the information.

I'm just sick of people getting hard-ons over seeing Final Fantasy VII fans who are Playstation owners getting shafted. If Halo Anniversary was a PS3 exclusive you wouldn't expect Xbox 360 owners to keep quiet would you?

EDIT: Carl beat me to it.


Square and Nintendo used to be very close. Until Nintendo and Square had a falling over the N64 sticking with the cartridge format, all mainline Final Fantasy exclusive to Nintendo. 

As for FInal Fantasy VII it it was published by Sony in Europe and North America (1997), Square in Japan (1997), and every where else(1997), and Eidos published the PC version in Europe and North America (1998.) Side note: The PSN version was published by SE in 2009.  The aformentioned information while just lead to us to continue go in circles. Since I can't find reputable web sources showing that SE owns the rights, I'll email them and get the information from the horse's mouth, post the response email from SE, and be done with t.