FF7 Rebirth has reportedly sold half what Remake did in the same timeframe

[The Fury]

Majin-Tenshinhan said:

It's been touched upon in this thread but honestly I think the fact that it's billed as a remake but ...*removed*

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.

On the spoiler, indeed. Many fans of the old game mentioned this exact issue, I even read it in a review. A new player would not have understood so much.

Which is why one person in a thread before FF7Remake even released simply said "this isn't a remake of FF7, it's a remake of the FF7 Compilation." All the extended universe tripe (these are my words not theirs) that didn't matter.

If I recall, most fans of FF7 and FF in general even back when it was announced said it was a terrible idea and most knew it was only because they wanted to milk people for all their worth. As soon as it was announced by SquEnix that it would be multiple games, you knew it was going to not be a remake but something else because barely an hour of narrative and 3-4 hours of gameplay cannot be turned into a 30 hour RPG without adding stuff.