There is also exploiting nostalgia. Square if they really wanted to could have made the full story of FF7 in one game. Hell, Persona 5 Royal is one large 120+ hour game. But from a money perspective, they knew that they could either sell the experience one time for $60 or sell it multiple times for $60.
Now fans have to wait 5-7 years just to get the complete FF7R experience. Hell, even the title is misleading to the casual impulse store buyer as it doesnt say FF7R Episde ...
The fact that we have to wait 7 years and pay $120 just to finish the story is sad.
However Square is getting a pass cause it is FF7.
Gamers are hypocrites. EA/Ubisoft/Activision makes a pro business decision over whats best for the consumer and they get torn apart. Square makes a pro business decision in milking FF7R over several full price games and everyone thinks it is a genius move.
I wonder how much of that comes from PC owners who couldnt wait and bought the vanilla console version at launch and then the PC version later on when it came out, essentially double purchases for 1 person.
In addition, how much of that is console owners who bought the vanilla version but later on bought the enhanced version....again resulting in double sales from 1 person.
The numbers would still be high, but significantly lower had GTAV launched with a ...
Witcher 3
RDR2
Cyberpunk 2077
Lol
Then why use a Piece of Eden?
Halo Infinite
Its a complete game? Then how come one has to wait for future installations to finish the game?
Remember, the game is called FF7R....not FF7R Part 1 or FF7R Episode 1
Ok, you totally missed his point.
And spend a decade solely focused on nostalgia/the past? I think not.
So it'll release in 3-4 years. Standard for Square Enix
Persona 5 Royal cause I got the full 150+ hour experience in one game at $60 compared to the episodic nature of FF7R which nowhere in the games title hints at it being episodic such as FF7R: Episode 1.
However what I said will get downvoted cause what I said makes too much sense.
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EA is all about monetization. They would never release a ME trilogy remake cause they'll need to have multiplayer in order to monetize things and only ME3 had multiplayer.
They'll also be reluctant on releasing the DLC items/stories as free as well.
But in essence that is what FF7R is, retreading old ground.
In all honesty, this doesnt mean FF is back. All that is happening is the most popular FF game ever and the one with the largest fanbase finally got a remake after 23 years of waiting. I would not use FF7R as a representation of how future FF games will do.
FF7R like Force Awakens gets its sales from itching nostalgia.
QUALITY content is the key. Otherwise quantity does not equal quality.
3 years is too long. No more than 2 years apart it ideal.
Well if thats how they want to play why does it have to be "whining"?
And yet here you are on a gaming news aggregate site full of content created by.....gaming journalists.