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According to Doucet, they approached Square Enix about it, but it wasn’t able to get it approved.

“It’s difficult to comment on that,” Doucet notes, and added, “We really respect the choice of each publisher.”

For those not old enough to remember, Final Fantasy 7 was the first game in the franchise to be released on a PlayStation platform, and this was after Square Enix decided to develop the game on the original PlayStation (PS1) instead of the Nintendo 64, with the PS1’s CD format cited as the main reason for Square to jump ship. This was noteworthy, as before FF7’s release on the PS1, Nintendo was the go-to platform for anything Final Fantasy, and the franchise’s jump from Nintendo to Sony signaled an end of an era, and essentially won the console wars then.

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[Angry_Megalodon]

Another company in shambles. Bad decisions left and right.

 

[Yoshichan]

square eating another L

 

[FeralEcho]

It makes no sense NOT to...

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Understandable. S-E’s current disposition is alignment with PS is hurting their ability to expand their audience, so the impression of being wed to another’s brand is a sensitive matter.

Plus S-E has their own collaboration series in Dissidia, so there is likely some concern about cannibalizing their own franchise.

That said, give us a f*cking Vivi astrobot YOU FUCKS.

 

[Baldesion]

Wow, these SE people have become boring and bitter.

 

[Topher]

Understandable. S-E’s current disposition is alignment with PS is hurting their ability to expand their audience, so the impression of being wed to another’s brand is a sensitive matter.

Plus S-E has their own collaboration series in Dissidia, so there is likely some concern about cannibalizing their own franchise.

That said, give us a f*cking Vivi astrobot YOU FUCKS.

That very well may be some of the concerns at SE, but either way they are overthinking it. It shouldn't be that hard. I mean.......Microsoft owned Crash Bandicoot is in the game.

 

[jm89]

It's really bizarre. Out of those other third party publishers square is the closest to sony. But not a single cameo.

 

[Fake]

wat

 

[LordOcidax]

Square is really good taking bad decisions. Those guys managed to ruin the Remake of FF7… What can you expect from them?

 

[nial]

Understandable. S-E’s current disposition is alignment with PS is hurting their ability to expand their audience, so the impression of being wed to another’s brand is a sensitive matter.

Plus S-E has their own collaboration series in Dissidia, so there is likely some concern about cannibalizing their own franchise.

That said, give us a f*cking Vivi astrobot YOU FUCKS.

Lol, they don't give a shit. They just want a vast amount of money and special DLC royalties.

 

[ap_puff]

It makes no sense NOT to...

There's a rumor circulating that Square asked for money, they might be kind of hard up right now with every game underperforming expectations...

 

[LordOcidax]

Lol, they don't give a shit. They just want a vast amount of money and special DLC royalties.

Did you think they are receiving royalties from Smash? i doubt it…

 

[SenkiDala]

THANK YOU Square Enix. I can get why you wouldn't like to see your characters changed as toons. Items why not but not the characters.

 

[nial]

Did you think they are receiving royalties from Smash? i doubt it…

I don't doubt it.

 

[Matt_Fox]

I'm not surprised, for big companies the default if another organisation asks to use your IP is an unequivocal 'no' and there's no further discussion to be had.

 

[FeralEcho]

There's a rumor circulating that Square asked for money, they might be kind of hard up right now with every game underperforming expectations...

Makes sense but still, it's free publicity,how desperate can you be as a company sheesh...

 

[Topher]

THANK YOU Square Enix. I can get why you wouldn't like to see your characters changed as toons. Items why not but not the characters.

That ain't it.

 

[nial]

THANK YOU Square Enix. I can get why you wouldn't like to see your characters changed as toons. Items why not but not the characters.

They already did that themselves.

 

[ap_puff]

Makes sense but still, it's free publicity,how desperate can you be as a company sheesh...

Yeah I don't understand their corporate decisionmaking, if anything it gets their IP in front of younger generations that might get interested in FF in the future

 

[FeralEcho]

Yeah I don't understand their corporate decisionmaking, if anything it gets their IP in front of younger generations that might get interested in FF in the future

Exactly. It's bizzare.

 

[majorgamer10]

Im old enough to remember that FF7 was made by SquareSoft not Square Enix. Totally different companies.

In my day, Squaresoft was Legendairy but I guess, today, Squaresoft doesn't matter anymore...

As they say, it's videogame history now.

I'm still gonna play FF7 Rebirth on my PS5 Pro <3

 

[LordOcidax]

They already did that themselves.

I was searching for that game.. Whats the name?

 

[SenkiDala]

That ain't it.

Unlike Astrobot, that's a good art style. Depends on opinions obviously.

 

[BennyBlanco]

They already did that themselves.

Multiple times

They 100% just wanted money.

 

[Elfstar]

Waahhh my precious characters can't have chibi cute versions

 

[Physiognomonics]

Wait I am pretty sure I saw Light's sword in Astro's Playroom. But I don't blame SE. Astro's Playroom was free but Sony is making money on AstroBot.

Soon a lot of money with those 20 million copies sold!

 

[LordOcidax]

Unlike Astrobot, that's a good art style. Depends on opinions obviously.

Dude, just take the L

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Astro Bot made me want to circle around and try LocoRoco

But I guess Square Enix doesn't want anything like that to happen lol

 

[Topher]

Unlike Astrobot, that's a good art style.

 

[nial]

I was searching for that game.. Whats the name?

World of Final Fantasy.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I'm not surprised, for big companies the default if another organisation asks to use your IP is an unequivocal 'no' and there's no further discussion to be had.

This statement makes no sense when every other big publisher and studio including Microsoft owned Activision Blizzard allowed their IP to be used for this

 

[AmuroChan]

This statement makes no sense when every other big publisher and studio including Microsoft owned Activision Blizzard allowed their IP to be used for this

Not to mention of all the third party publishers out there, S-E has probably been the biggest recipient of Sony money for the various exclusivity deals they've done together.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Unlike Astrobot, that's a good art style. Depends on opinions obviously.

 

[Deerock71]

It makes no sense NOT to...

It makes sense that it makes no sense not to in...the sensing make.

 

[LordCBH]

Square making a retarded decision? No fuckin way!

 

[SSfox]

Square Enix need to consider releasing a Final Fantasy in everything beside Playstation so we can laugh

 

[asdasdasdbb]

This statement makes no sense when every other big publisher and studio including Microsoft owned Activision Blizzard allowed their IP to be used for this

Crash, right? Probally got agreement before the sale.

 

[Baldesion]

A diferencia de Astrobot, ese es un buen estilo artístico. Depende de las opiniones, obviamente.

L for Leviathan

 

[TGO]

Those guys managed to ruin the Remake of FF7

There's a Remake of Final Fantasy VII?

 

[Boss Mog]

Me and my friends were speculating this was the case when the game came out since there were no SE characters at all.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Tetsuya Nomura and Roberto Ferrari require all captured scenes with their art to be watermarked but SIE/Asobi weren’t prepared to do this on a whole-game basis or implement a character tag/in-frame detect system to do it dynamically.

*I made this up.
*But there’s probably some truth to it.

 

[SenkiDala]

Multiple times

They 100% just wanted money.

I didn't mean they don't want chibi, I mean they want to preserve their art style, even though Astrobot is popular you might not want your art style (normal or chibi) to be changed in another game. As much as I love AstroBot I don't like its art style so I can understand. But yeah it's highly possible that it's just a matter of money.

 

[Ronin_7]

Square Enix is just retarded at this point.

 

[squidilix]

This is one of the main problem on Square Enix and not just for other publisher. Itself too.

On FF Final Bar, devs can't include Rikku or Lulu FFX because "too complicated with original Producers and need long talk" and each time they need to add a character, they need to talk with original producer, teams or designer of the game. Same thing for adding songs.

Square Enix is just a clown management

 

[Diddy X]

They should learn from humble Microsoft.

 

[Vick]

I can't believe this not being matter of money.

Square Enix might be the single most greedy gaming-related company on the planet. I'm sure not many people are aware here, but SE had the guts to ask $14,000 for one single Final Fantasy 1:6 Prime 1 statue. For contex, Sony's IP Prime 1 statues in larger 1:4 scale go for $1,500 max.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Always hated that chibi look to SE’s characters. Yoshitaka Amano didn’t draw them that way.

 

[Topher]

But yeah it's just a matter of money.

ftfy

 

[Sooner]

THANK YOU Square Enix. I can get why you wouldn't like to see your characters changed as toons. Items why not but not the characters.