How did it flop so hard for one of the most hyped up releases of all time?

How did it flop so hard for one of the most hyped up releases of all time?

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>most hyped-up releases of all time
do you have the memory of a goldfish?

He's referring to how people have been begging for a remake for over a decade.

It's a decent game that fails to excel in any of the things it offers. If you wanted to recommend FF7R to a friend by showing them one of the best bits, something 'cool' that would make a good impression, then what exactly would you show them?

>Highest selling digital release on the PlayStation platform

You know it sold like shit when they have to make up super specific accomplishments

And those very same people are still waiting on that remake because what we got was some half-baked compliation pseudo sequel instead.

>that fails to excel in any of the things it offers.
Considering it has amazing combat, characters, graphics and music i dont see how it doesnt excel at them

Maybe the Air Buster fight? With the music included. That was the best bit of this absolute fucking shitshow they call a remake

It only being the Midgar part didnt help, but the main factor was in fact covid.

FF7Re literally released as the world went into lockdown in 2020. Square Enix actually had to ship the game early to markets otherwise it would be locked out completely. Its the reason why some copies were on the street before the official release date and why it was the most downloaded game in PSN history.

Plenty of markets did not see a physical copies on shelves till September of that year and large number of people didnt have the data to download a game of that size. Entire markets outside of JPN/US/EU/AUS missed out.

Because Square Enix tried to scam people.
It's marketed and presented as a remake, but it's a sequel with Dirge of Cerberus characters and fucking time travel ghosts.

I feel genuinely sorry for anyone who played this shit before playing the original game. They've been robbed of a fantastic first-time experience.

Its already sold double that FFXV did

aww sweet a schizo duel thread

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>shipped
such an embarrassing benchmark

It's a shame because it does a fucking ton of things right, but then it pulls the time travel ghosts and fight destiny crap

>only a fraction of the game
>altering the story and adding in a bunch of cringeworthy Dirge of Cerberus tier OC
>censoring Tifa
What kind of an idiot would buy this?

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Doesn't the game remove her materia when she leaves the party anyway?

Yeah, I actually think it's a great game, it's just a terrible fucking way to experience Final Fantasy VII for the first time.
If it was called something like Final Fantasy VII Reunion, I'd have little to complain about. It's a sequel. Market it as one.

After playing it a second time I never pick upon on how much Aerith knows what's going on while cloud and everyone else is having flashbacks to things that has happened in some form or another. One instance that stood out where Cloud gets pissed and says to Aerith, "Don't act like you know me".

Have you seen square's bombs lately? Even if 7R barely made its money back they would be happy.

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By not being very good at all.

>Epic Gay Store exclusive
The 10 people using it already bought it so there's nowhere to really go from there in terms of sales.

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>Literally call it FF7 Remake
>its not a FF7 Remake

im sure it only reached 5m thanks to the ps5 re-relaunch of it

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FF7 was hard carried by nostalgia and 2000's edgelords who had just gotten into anime like eva. Getting to play it again in hd with the nostalgia goggles off made people realize it really wasn't as good as they remembered, as is the case with most older games featured in "best game ever" lists. At this point most people only care about whether Aerith gets to live or not, after that's done with nobody will give a single fuck.

Still mad, Barry?

walking through 3 copy paste metallic hallways doing the same shit every room was the best this garbage had to offer? good thing I dropped it.

>hurrr you don't understand, it's remake as in we're remaking the story, durrr you're just retarded it's your fault for expecting a 1 for 1 remake lmao

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reminders:
1. This tweet was made when FF7 Remake was 4 months old
2. A salty FFXV fanboy is trying to push the narrative that 7R ffopped

I liked it. Game has flaws but after 13 and 15 atleast square isn't incapable of making a decent ff.

The Compilation is great,
The Remake is great.
No matter how much you whine, those two facts will not change.

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>story is both unlike and worse than the original game
>entire game is bloated with MMO tier content and sidequests
>b-but at least the game looks okay haha
yeah I wonder why nobody cares about it

also the usual;
>shipped and sold
so, how much of it was actually sold?
god I fucking hate marketers, with such a passion

>so, how much of it was actually sold?

5 million as of 4 months old because it's Physical AND Digital sales

5 million is good right? What's the problem?

Tifa mods.

The game is okay. Starts out strong but kinda poorly paced and with a lame/weird ending that doesn't do much to make me care about the followups.

you did not answer the question; shipped does not equal sold, so, how much of it was actually sold?

I don't give a fuck about squeenix sending copies to fucking bezo's storage buildings, user, I want to know how many actual players bought and played this mess of a game

>5M for FF is good.

Good joke user.

The game cost $200M to make.

This is the main reason why I didn't support the game. I'm not interested in a Nomura KH-style sequel to the compilation, I wanted the remake square teased for almost two decades.

5 millions is nothing when you're THE LEGENDARY SQUARE ENIX selling copies of a remake of FF7 THE BEST GAME EVER MADE.

It's the worst selling Final Fantasy that is all , resident evil 3 remake is outselling it right now

Modded Tifa

“Ah, so she’s almost how she was in the original!”

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>Animal Crossing and Zoom Eternal still a bajillion copies because of lockdown
>But that’s why FF7R did mediocre

Hmm

5m isn't even enough to pay back the marketing campaign
and that 5m is a figure coming directly from them; god knows what the real numbers are with the way these corprorate tumors do things

It wasn't true to the original.

Completely changed the battle system...like wtf that was the main selling point of the game.

> 5m isn't even enough to pay back the marketing campaign

It definitely is, 5m is still a big success. It’s just not what they would have wanted for the game they basically used as their nest egg.

After RE2 remake i expect RE to be more popular than FF. RE releases on 3 consoles at launch unlike FF but still RE would be more popular outside of FF14.

>ow did it flop so hard for one of the most hyped up releases of all time?
Because it's not a FFVII Remae but a schizo sequel that's gutted into a million parts and each will take a million years to come out.

Idk maybe the Japanese weren't as interested in it? Do they fanboy as hard for FFVII as Westerners?

>censored tifa
>time ghost garbage
>not even a full game
it's shit. I refuse to play this cause it will ruin the original ff7.

>It’s just not what they would have wanted for the game they basically used as their nest egg.
Which means it was a failure.

>It definitely is, 5m is still a big success.
Discounts
Bundles
PS+
Regional pricing
Promotional events

Not all 5m copies were 70$ day-1 purchases, you delusional, disingenuous snoy tranny. Don't reply to me again.

Is it worth playing dirge and crisis before playing this? Only ever played the original.

Do you guys think there is Nomura fatigue? This brand of corny convoluted uber-autistic nonsense played straight has gotten so stale no one gives a shit about FF7R or KH4 anymore, because getting into both means you're investing into at least 10+ years of bad writing, retcons, slow development, bloat, plot details revealed in interviews and Ultimania etc. Square Enix needs to die already.

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>consolewar language
>in CURRENT YEAR
user please go back to plebbit

That’s true for every single game we talk about sales numbers for, and given that they’re a few months from release, they’ll be largely full price.

The only real marketing bullshit here is conflating shipped with sold.

Didn't it get delayed like 90 times?

>596233749
>>consolewar language
>>in CURRENT YEAR
>user please go back to plebbit
Absolute fucking insanity. No reply for you, I'm not your psychiatrist.

I love KH and Nomura shenanigans. I just don't want them in something not meant to have them i.e. 7R.

Wow they remade ff7 I can’t wait oh no I have shitty ARPG combat where I slap giant robots and small frogs with a 7 ft tall sword 1400 times but they all react like it’s a fly swatter what the fuck are those are those time jannies pftahahahahaha what the fuck hey 30 hours of midgar content maybe I’ll get to see more nope it’s just fetch quests for gay side characters nobody asked for or gives a shit about one of them says he’s a spirit robot too