FFVIIR Official Concept Art & Twitter Whatnots

[Misterbadguy]

Good to see them clarifying the situation at least. Shame they sat on their hands for a week waiting to do so, but it's the thought that counts I suppose.

 

[Shaun]

If you live in the UK, Germany or France and pre-order the game from the Square-Enix Store, it seems you can enter a draw to win an overpriced watch.

(There's currently a waiting list on the store selling them for £1777.77!)

 

[Jairus]

SE's been really quiet lately for the most part. I'd have thought they'd have done something today at least to mark the original FFVII's anniversary, but I guess not. Hopefully we'll get some new stuff soon - *coughthedemocoughcough* - so we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Dee]

SE's been really quiet lately for the most part. I'd have thought they'd have done something today at least to mark the original FFVII's anniversary, but I guess not. Hopefully we'll get some new stuff soon - *coughthedemocoughcough* - so we'll just have to wait and see.

Probably wanting to get over the leaked demo hump and into a new month. Probably ramping up for some reveals in Feb/March since the release is now only 10 weeks away. That's not that long in comparison to how far other games were pushed back. We'll definitely see some new stuff here in the next few weeks.

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

I think it's funny how fickle personal reactions to marketing can be. The silence from the Game Awards until now has really deflated a lot of my excitement for FFVIIR, when previous breaks between trailers (E3 to TGS for example) just made me anticipate it more. I don't envy people who have to co-ordinate these PR campaigns because I don't know how you decide what a good marketing schedule is.

 

[Makoeyes987]

I don't know if the leaks sort of scrambled the marketing team, but between that and delay, it appears Square's sorta flat-footed in trying to figure out the best way of keeping the marketing paced and effective in lead up to release.

They're doing it poorly now, between the large gaps of radio silence, no demo or some comparable sort of lead up to release, or just something that keeps it relevant and exciting. Delays suck and hurt, but to counter the negative judgment behind the decision, marketing has to tack harder to keep the interest up and excitement high til its new release.

It's like there was a one-two punch with the leaks and delay that has left them sorta paralyzed with how to proceed now. It's a shame.

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

No doubt the delay pushed the marketing plan back as well. They can't proceed as they would have otherwise and just add an additional five weeks of pre-release marketing (costs) into the mix.

Most likely we'll begin seeing the intense marketing campaign roll out the first week of March when it would have been the first week of February.

 

[ForceStealer]

Will be interesting to see if gamespot turns out to be inadvertently right about a March 3rd release for the demo

 

[FFShinra]

Starting to think there won't be a demo, to be honest. Not after the leak. Maybe once the game releases, they release it to give a taste to people on the fence, but there is only two months or so left.

 

[ForceStealer]

Why would the leak have anything to do with the demo release? They don't have to worry about datamining anymore, it's all out. And, like I've said before, because we're in the weeds, it's easy to overrate the actual effect the leaks. 80% (at the least) of the people who will buy this game know nothing about them. And presumably a demo's main target isn't the diehard fans anyway but other people, who definitely don't know about the leaks.

 

[Jairus]

Well, according to MakoEyes and Lex, there's still a lot that wasn't in the leaks, so maybe they're worried about that, I don't know. Leaking even more than already has been, in other words.

 

[ForceStealer]

It would be the same demo posted as was leaked, how would releasing it reveal anything else? It's the same file.

 

[Odysseus]

Personally I don't even want a demo at this point, the leak spoiled any excitement that would have brought. Just give me the game, I can wait.

 

[ForceStealer]

I didn't look at any leaks, so I still want to experience it

 

[Odysseus]

Neither did I, it's just that it won't be a big community event here anymore since half the people here have already seen it. My favorite thing pre-leak was reading people's speculation and such, but that can't really happen anymore.

 

[Jairus]

Maybe it wouldn't be quite the same demo or the same file, though - maybe they're afraid of different stuff getting baked in than before if they tweak it and release an updated version.

 

[ForceStealer]

The file was on PSN's servers. Why would it be something different? It's just a matter of it being posted publicly. To spend even more work on a demo and not the final release would be a pretty dumb use of resources

 

[Jairus]

Wasn't it taken down, though? I was just saying, if they did release a demo, they might tweak it so there's nothing baked in that could be datamined or lead to further leaks before reuploading it.

 

[Odysseus]

I'm sure if they released a demo, it will be scrubbed of any excess information. The leak was a huge embarrassment for them, I doubt they'd just do nothing.

 

[Cannon_Fodder]

I still want the demo, because while I watched a couple playthroughs of it, I never saw anyone play it well. Which was pretty frustrating

 

[Jimmy XH]

I still want the demo, because while I watched a couple playthroughs of it, I never saw anyone play it well. Which was pretty frustrating

Yes. And while there were people who did a fair bit of exploration, I want to be able to do all of that myself and dissect the small details.

Maybe that’s a reflection of my impatience more than anything else but I don’t consider that to be ruining the upcoming experience when the full game releases.

I just need something to stop me from googling FFVII several times on a daily basis and even checking what time it currently is in Japan to understand why they’ve not announced anything yet on the anniversary...

 

[cold_spirit]

By this time in Devil May Cry 5's marketing campaign (which spread from June '18 - March '19), fans were chewing away at five ~3.5 minute trailers, two versions of a demo, and three officially released OST singles with music videos. FF7R (since June '19) has had three ~3 minute trailers, two ~1 minute "teaser" trailers, a leaked demo, and a delay. And that's not even accounting the development troubles since June '15.

Gotta say, Square Enix is still tripping over themselves where other companies have conquered.

 

[Keveh Kins]

Spoiler: New Trailer!

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1223184143971954688

 

[cold_spirit]

Right after I talk shit about SE they drop a trailer FEATURING Nobuo Uematsu. I'm happy to be made a fool.

 

[LicoriceAllsorts]

This is bullshit. Cloud has a gun. Referee!!