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Square Enix move came before Sony actually, Sony has only announced it, it doesn't take effect until 2028, yet SE is already fucking up their fanbase, which is gladly taking it and rewarding them with a rain on money, exactly like we saw with GTA VI. You can't shift the blame away from SE, it's all on them, and that's exactly what you were doing saying Sony is the main villain in a situation about a SE game. That's 100% on SE. They are their own villain. Period. There is nothing theorical about it, that's happening with their biggest game ever, they are doing it with what they have the power to do so. Specially in the last part of a 3 way remake project that took a decade. You also can't compare the situation as there is really no resistance whatsoever into the SE fanbase side, or even the media. I went on social media, sites, forums, and pretty much nothing at all. Nearly no comment, nearly no news, absolutely no actual resistance whatsover, my posts on social media were hardly engaged and the current conversation was always vastly dominated by hype, almost nobody cared about it whatsover. And again, that is very likely the most overlaping fanbase which has engaged with the movements against Sony, which is currently going on in everything they do. I know for a fact there are people on this very thread are acting completely different than what they did in the thread about Sony, for example. About me also becoming an enabler, let's see how it goes. I haven't touched the digital only God of War Sons of Sparta in hopes it would get a physical release, it didn't and won't, I still haven't. That's my favorite franchise in gaming. And I'm not planning to buy any digital only game they release, but we'll have to wait for that because for now I can't back up that claim since the decision is not in effect, so its easy to say it. I'm not buying Revelations unless they release an actual physical version btw, while I physically own pretty much every single FFs in some shape or form, except FF8 I guess. And gaming here is a vastly costlier investment than most people reading my post have any reference about, being a physical collectors is a much harder decision from someone living here than many other countries out there, yet I'm one and have not moved to digital yet... It's funny you believe I'll become an enabler too, even as you have no indication about it, and that's exactly because they do it, because people accept everything and even point at others expecting them to do the same. But again, you can't be disproven yet, as it didn't actually start to happen. |
Sony announced it first and the backlash is about the news/promise, not the execution. The execution is virtually inevitable unless the outrage miraculously changes it and we can throw a party in celebration. Whatever SE is doing here, it's inconsequential and incomparable to Sony who set a bleak atmosphere and sealed the fate of discs.
You pretty much said that Sony's announcement was what energized SE and made them confident in that move. So you admitted the correlation yourself. Sony's choices can have a ripple effect because they're a huge player in the industry, that's just common sense. No, this doesn't make it acceptable for SE to do whatever they're doing, but Sony by your own logic are the enablers (enabler isn't a big word). Less terrible news won't catch as much attention because everyone is focused on the worse criminal, Sony is indeed the main villain. They're not the main villain in SE's choice to go digital for one game, they are the main villain of the larger "death of discs" topic that took over the internet by storm and is correlated to GTA6 and FF7R going digital-only.
To be more clear: the main culprit of FF7 going digital-only is obviously SquareEnix themselves... but Sony fueled and enabled that (an accomplice if you will). Sony's decision to end discs is a thousand times worse and that's not an exaggeration. SE isn't in the process of forcing every single 3rd party game to go digital-only on Playstation. Resetera and the internet's general reactions to Sony's vs SE's bad decisions are logical...
I'm sorry for assuming a big Sony 1st party fan like yourself wouldn't stop buying Sony games just because they're digital-only. Maybe I assumed wrong but I genuinely didn't expect you to deny that! Are you considering boycotting Sony and Playstation?
