Remake Demo Listed on PSN (UPDATE: The Full Intro is on YouTube)

[Ryuman]

I imagine SE, while they could ask, ultimately don't have the authority to tell Sony to update their store early
(Though I don't doubt they will be stubborn anyway)

 

[Strangelove]

me calling nomura to ask for the demo to just be officially released already

 

[Jairus]

Hopefully the demo will be out tomorrow or Friday... the wait is agony now. But we're finally in 2020, the year of FF7R. So we're getting closer!

 

[Ryuman]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1212518996257517569

Square Enix finally gonna end FFVII forever
EC confirmed lol

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1212521984913006592

Red XIII seems to be playable with little doubt

 

[Clean Cut Chaos]

Spoiler: Wha?

I haven't played any of the FF7 prequels. Heidegger mentions they are looking into if Avalanche was responsible for a previous attempt on Shinra's life. Was that a part of another game?

 

[Ryuman]

Should there be a dedicated datamining thread? There is so much leaking right now.

Spoiler: Wha?

I haven't played any of the FF7 prequels. Heidegger mentions they are looking into if Avalanche was responsible for a previous attempt on Shinra's life. Was that a part of another game?

Spoiler: Before Crisis spoilers

I have never played Before Crisis but apparently the original Avalanche crashes a speech and he gets shot.

 

[Teioh]

Spoiler: Wha?

I haven't played any of the FF7 prequels. Heidegger mentions they are looking into if Avalanche was responsible for a previous attempt on Shinra's life. Was that a part of another game?

Spoiler

Yup, Before Crisis has the original Avalanche trying to kill the President. But not sure if it'll be the same Avalanche here. Barret's profile mentions that there are other members of Avalanche out there and that he's just a leader of one cell. Also mention that they weren't a fan of his extreme methods, gotta wonder what he did!

 

[Ryuman]

Basically the whole game leaking in temp images right now lmao. Hojo, Red XIII, seemingly unnannounced DLC items, minigames, etc

 

[Jairus]

Oy, probably should have a separate leak thread, then, so people don't get accidentally spoiled, with big clear warnings on the thread title. I wonder what SE's going to do about all this?

And back to the demo, I never realized until they were getting into the elevator just how much smaller Jessie is than Cloud and Barret. She is a tiny little thing.

 

[FFShinra]

Well at least people don't have to worry about Nanaki anymore.

 

[Ite]

Oy, probably should have a separate leak thread, then, so people don't get accidentally spoiled, with big clear warnings on the thread title. I wonder what SE's going to do about all this?

And back to the demo, I never realized until they were getting into the elevator just how much smaller Jessie is than Cloud and Barret. She is a tiny little thing.

How is this not the separate thread?

 

[Jairus]

Well, Ite, it started off about the demo, not about any leaks. Just saying maybe the topics should be split?

 

[Lex]

Lemme make a new thread.

 

[Lex]

New thread made. Untagged spoilers. Beware.

https://thelifestream.net/forums/th...ed-massive-leaks-with-big-implications.22170/

 

[ForceStealer]

I didn't expect to have to check out of the internet so soon

 

[Jairus]

Just curious, but why would SE put the demo and the game up on PSN before they were set to launch? Didn't they know that doing that was practically begging for it to be leaked?

 

[Ryuman]

I don't think it really matters anymore. If this went up, say, literally Jan 31st just before releasing as an anniversary thing, then all this would just be happening the first week of Feb. Sure, that's a whole month less of leaks, but this is bottoming out at 100mph

 

[Jairus]

I mean, why wouldn't they wait until the moment it's to be released to put it up?

 

[NibelFire]

I don't think it really matters anymore. If this went up, say, literally Jan 31st just before releasing as an anniversary thing, then all this would just be happening the first week of Feb. Sure, that's a whole month less of leaks, but this is bottoming out at 100mph

Pretty much. With the level of data mining in this day and age no amount of encryption can stop it. The moment they decided to have a demo it was just a matter of when the leaks will happen. They probably knew this was coming but didn't care anyway.

@Lex Boy I opened that thread, saw Red and had to immediately close it. I'm struggling enough already to prevent myself from being spoiled to death. The urge to keep scrolling further was so, so real.

Only two months to go. Must. Not. Cave. In .

 

[Cloud_S]

You're just seeing video compression. The game will run at 4k when it's released. That video is just 720p and depends on how good your internet bandwidth is at any given moment. It was fairly clear on mine, for what it's worth. I have fiber to the home, though.

Yeah I know the vid was pretty heavily compressed, and I know it depends on bandwidth, etc. Except I downloaded a copy and was going through it frame by frame, and this band of pixelation was still there. So I was hoping it was due to the recording and not a flaw in the intro video render.

 

[pxp]

 

[Knights of the Round]

Yeah I know the vid was pretty heavily compressed, and I know it depends on bandwidth, etc. Except I downloaded a copy and was going through it frame by frame, and this band of pixelation was still there. So I was hoping it was due to the recording and not a flaw in the intro video render.

There’s a 1080p uploaded by Andrew2007 out there now, and I don’t see any artifacts in it at that part.

So, it was either compression, recording or a different build. Most often something like that is a compression issue.

 

[Claymore]

I didn't expect to have to check out of the internet so soon

Im definitely at this point now. I only opened and closed the other thread. I don't mind spoilers, but i dont want the entire game spoiled and would like to experience a few genuine suprises.

So, im out of these threads now. Enjoy everyone.

 

[Suzaku]

Just curious, but why would SE put the demo and the game up on PSN before they were set to launch? Didn't they know that doing that was practically begging for it to be leaked?

Anything that's to be listed on PSN needs to go through a lengthy certification and setup process that takes about two weeks minimum to complete. With the holiday season currently underway I'm also going to assume that some of the people who would normally be making sure that everything is going according to plan might be out on vacation.

 

[crazyrabbits23]

They should just release the demo and get ahead of it

The problem, as was pointed out on a stream by Maximillian Dood this evening, is that it's not as simple as saying "release this". Many people in Japan are still on holidays. To get a demo like this out, you'd need to make sure you have the staff and resources to ensure that it's properly uploaded, distributed, patched (if needed), etc. He also pointed out that there are elements in the intro alone that he didn't see in the E3 closed-doors demo.

The only thing that seems clear is that there's a notice at the end of the gameplay to purchase a copy of the base/deluxe edition, suggesting it will be released at some point. That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if S-E scrubs the whole thing entirely and lets speculation run rampant until launch day, stemming further leaks where they can.