It's been touched upon in this thread but honestly I think the fact that it's billed as a remake but
was a horrible move and turned a lot of players off. I was thinking about buying it since I liked FF7 a decent amount back in the day but when I heard that it instantly turned me off, and I've heard from many friends and acquaintances (anecdotal, but still relevant) who didn't play the original that they weren't going to stick around for the followups because of this.
I think splitting it into 3 games was a horrible idea from the start (but I also remember that saying this got you jumped by Square-Enix fans at the time), but letting Nomura go full Kingdom Hearts on it was an even worse idea. Square-Enix are just not making good decisions as a company, and it should come as no surprise given they spent like 4-5 years talking about how amazing NFTs were.
