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Forums - Gaming - Final Fantasy VII Revelation Hype Thread! Release Date Confirmed (4/8/27)

BraLoD 8 hours ago
Kyuu said:
BraLoD said:

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?

The point was lost a long time ago, of course Sony is responsible for what they do, buy Square Enix is the only responsible for what they do themselves too, even if they feel safer to do it after Sony made the announcement, it's 100% on their own. Also, GTA6 was a digital only game before Sony made that announced, btw. Regardless, that's not the point.

The point is people are not fighting back Square Enix even moderatedly, they are very much rewarding them for doing it and pretty much entirely ignoring the issue, and they were very likely a huge part of the people mad at Sony, as they should, before that.

About me personally, I'm considering dropping modern gaming altogether aside from Nintendo 1st party until/if they start doing the GKC themselves too, and only buy digital games from indie studios here and there, because it is very reasonable for them to not have the money to invest in big physical prints, which is what I have been doing my entire life, nearly 100% of the digital games I have are cheap indies or very cheap classic games there are no prints anymore for decades (from which I may also own the physical version of it).

I have been going on Sony dev studio profiles and asking them about the situation and telling them, even as I'm a big fan of their work, if their parent company pulls the shit it is announced to do I may very well not buy a game from them anymore, even as I love their games. I'm not up to harassing any of them, but as a fan of their work I'm letting them in on how I feel, and I do believe they are big enough to position themselves against or even in line with it. It's not like Sony would fire Cory Barlog and Neil Druckmann if they said they would like to still be able to ship physical games, Cory said he would like their games on PC even before God of War was ever announced for it, for example.

The fact that decision is just a mandate going down the chain and nobody can speak their mind about it is another reason it is only anti consumer.

Again, about me dropping new releases, I can't prove it until it happens, but I'm not planning at all to carve in and just move full digital when it does happen, but until it in fact does happen it's just how I feel right now.

I've already made peace with the possibility of not getting the God of War trilogy remake even as it was something I've been asking about for several years, and was very hyped about when it was finally announced, tho.



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