FFVII REMAKE CONFIRMED

Makoeyes987

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I mean...

Considering its just a candy bar that apparently gives you DLC. That's... Extremely cheap and easy to get.

I won't hate on it.

....Now, if Barret suddenly turns to Cloud in Sector 7's slums, and says it's vital for the life of the planet that he procures a Butterfinger to use in his next anti-Shinra scheme.. I'm gonna be a bit concerned.

EDIT: This is fascinating. So there were accessories and armor that were in the DLC location of the leaks from the FFVII Demo. People were wondering how they would be implemented. And now we see how.

They are the Midgar Bangle, Shinra Bangle, Corneo Armlet, Superstar Belt, and the Mako Crystal.
 
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Saven

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*feeds Black Chocobo 20 Butterfingers*
*Speed has increased by 255*
*This Chocobo seems a helluva lot happier now*

That's.......strange. At least it wasn't nowhere near as bad as the title of that article made it out to be.

I also eat Butterfingers all the time and get them every other week at the store, so I will definitely be taking advantage of this.
 
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Maidenofwar

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Ohh I think I read it wrong. I thought it was offering an exclusive musical theme track for Tifa a new piece of music or something not just a console background :mon::sweatsmile:
 

Ite

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Does anyone else feel that this totally undermines the entire point of FF7? Like, getting into bed with a capitalist venture — an American candy bar company of all things — that unapologetically uses palm oil, one of the most environmentally destructive products — makes the whole thing feel really cheap? Like it makes the fight against Shinra Inc. feel really hollow?

I don’t know. This really feels like the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me. It’s just... wtf
 

Ite

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Without a hint of irony: yes. This feels like such a betrayal. Like it’s one thing to live within a broken system and tell stories that cause people to question that system, and another thing entirely to celebrate that system by asking your audience to participate more in that system.

If their goal was to remind me that their intentions are impure, message fucking received.
 

Ite

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Is this really the first time you're questioning Square's integrity?

By no stretch. And don’t get me wrong, despite my attempts to limit my consumption, to vote with my dollar, and behave as ethically as possible, I still choose to exist within the framework of a capitalist, colonialist, resource-extraction society, because the alternative is AVALANCHE-levels of extremism and I’m more of a Reeve than a Barret, I’m not too proud to admit. But, like Vash the Stampede thanking the tuna in his sandwich before he eats it, there’s an ethical equivocation that comes with any transaction I make, and it’s a no-brainer when it comes to art. I pay money for a product, that money goes to the team that brought me that product, and I trust that the producers and artists have reached an arrangement that allows those artists to continue surviving and providing for their loved ones within the broken framework of the capitalist society, and encourages them to continue striving to share their art, their stories, and their questions.

(That trust of course is constantly shaken by the AAA industry and isn’t that something we’re hoping to change? Or have we given up on that?)

FF7 was the first piece of media I consumed that had a perspective beyond the Western anthropocentric capitalist bent. It was a story that, ironically, started me on the questioning path that led me to now properly reconsidering purchasing FF7R.
 

oty

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Wouldn't this candy bar situation qualify as a deal though? It certainly will benefit the creators of this product of art, as any financial deal should. I am sorry, but considering this a "last straw" type of situation just feels extremely oblivious to anything else Square has done, in a long time. It's not like Square has changed after the release of FFVII. If anything, you should take FFVII as their most hypocritical product yet, since it is as close as you can imagine to a tripleA undertaking back in the 90s, with massive sums of money and resources being spent into making it. And we all know what tripleA undertaking means (looks at unreasonable crunching time, bad pay, etc). Hell, the original VII also wasnt exempt of Square's actions either. A lot of stuff went down that, if you look at it impartially, you can very much compare it today's "cashgrabs".
 
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