Final Fantasy VII Revelation Director Insists Square Enix Had No Choice but to Require a Download to Play the Physical Disc Version of the Game
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Final Fantasy VII Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi has offered an explanation for why the physical disc version of the game on PlayStation 5 and Xbox requires a download to play.
  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    “no choice”

    If only lies had consequences.

    There were choices. They could do a play/install disc combo. If Sony didn’t allow that for some reason, they could easily split the game in two and put the two SKUs in the same case.

    They just didn’t want to. It wasn’t a scenario where there were no options.

  • emb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    7·
    1 month ago

    I had totally missed the news that the last part of FFVII remake wouldn’t get a functional physical edition. So disappointing! Especially in the last year of discs. Don’t see why it can’t be on 3 discs, or have been made with 2 discs in mind.

    Not doing physical is a way bigger compromise to me than anything else they could have landed on.

    Left the headline mostly in tact to avoid over-editorializing, but I think the idea that there was no other choice is absurd.

    • Uruanna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      Rebirth is almost 150GB. In Revelation, they’re cutting the Mythril Mines and some places like the Gongaga reactor that you wouldn’t return to at this point of the game, and they’re adding the Northern Crater, Wutai, Mideel, Rocket Town (remade as a space center), Fort Condor, and Midgar is back, each of this as a full region, not just one city. They’re not adding full underwater exploration, but there are underwater events.

      I don’t know how this game can be under 250GB.