Kyuu said:
Most publishers are pleased about Sony's decision (some will pretend that they aren't). It sucks for the consumer but it's understandable from a business perspective, retailers get a large cut on every physical sale (twice the cut that the platform holder gets). A digital dominated future was inevitable, Sony ditching physical is just accelerating that. True physical options will disappear soon. GKC is preferable to what Sony is doing and makes perfect sense for Nintendo, but it isn't true physical either, and Nintendo didn't prevent Call of Duty from being a code in a box... It's a shame SquareEnix chose against including the full game here, but Sony is the main villain and enablers. And again we don't know what all these disruptions in the disc supply chain mean to disc prices. Sony repurposing their largest disc plant may have already caused an increase in BD prices in some sectors, and they're probably not the only manufacturers that are repurposing, closing, or downsizing their factories. Nevertheless SE should have included the full game at least with the collectors edition, even if it required 3 discs. If pricing is a problem, then make it $20 more expensive. That way they would make as much money from physical as digital per sale. |
Sony is the vilain for themselves, and after 2028.
Microsoft has been doing this missing data from disc thing for years now, way before what Sony has announced 2 months ago disrupting anything worldwide.
Square Enix is to blame here, and its fans are enablers, even as they were, most definitely, haters when it was coming from Sony 2 months ago, as the OP has been updating the thread, things are getting sold out quickly.
I saw the thread on ResetEra getting down very quickly too, with a lot of posts saying they will buy it regardless. The thread when Sony announced it was one of the biggest things I've ever seen, together with the reaction on their blog and social media, and still all over anything they do, like the State of Play. But let's just shrug when its Square Enix because come on, it's Final Fantasy 7 guys!
I saw Maximiliam Dood, a very nice guy that has gone digital on PC for years now, get so sad and blame Sony for doing what it is doing, but now that's Square Enix doing it with the game he loves, from which he personally received the director for an interview in his house after getting a call live the moment the game was announced, react in a completely difference manner, just being unhappy and then going "oh well", and ordering the most expensive overseas version of it and moving to full hype mode on his channel immediatly.
His video about Sony even as a doom evocating thumbnail, his latest video about FF7 is 100% hype (which is obviously fine to be hyper about). He has the contact of the guy, he interviewed him once, I would immediatly try to get him for an interview, even if he is in Japan we have the internet, to explain himself now too, but nah, things can only happen when its to promote stuff, nobody confronts shit anymore, can't risk the corpo being unhappy now, can we?
Square Enix is to blame and Square Enix alone.
Like Sony, Square Enix is greedy. And they are SO greedy they couldn't even wait to blame Sony for it and save face because they knew their enabler fans.
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