Sales tend to be lower when you only release on one console.

People die when they are killed.

Water is a liquid.

Etc.

I'm not buying a PS5 to play one game. Port it to PC and we'll talk.

Release it on PC then. Enough with the console exclusivity just to bitch that the game isn’t selling well.

I’d have played it day one had it come out on PC. They’re the ones deciding to cripple sales.

Since I’ve got to wait at least a year - possibly two if they decide to do a timed Epic exclusivity - there’s no way I’m paying full price and will wait for a sale once it’s on Steam.

I was kind of interested in the remakes until they split it into multiple games.

Is it a retelling of FF7? I don't know.

Should I play the original first? No clue.

Which order should I play them in? No idea.

What is an integrade? Intergrade?

They've done a terrible job at onboarding potential new fans compared to say, Resident Evil.

Well, get your sales numbers up by releasing it somewhere besides PS5. Gone are the days of holding a game or two hostage to create your walled garden for your shitty console.

I'm not gonna buy a PS5 for one game, but I'd probably have even pre-ordered for a steam release

Maybe if they sold it as one game, instead of selling it in parts and charging $70 for each...

It might be that due to so many games getting released, many confuse it for a rerelease or extra content rather than a full game.

Just to echo some of the others here, console exclusivity is literally the reason I didn't buy it. I enjoyed most of what they did for part 1, but I am not investing in a console I literally never will play. They also screwed me by releasing the first on ps4, then ps5, then only part 2 on ps5. Who does that? That's a two console investment if you bought in early.

i predict the sales would increase a bit when it ported to PC.

I'll only buy it on PC when all three parts are in a bundle for 50 bucks. Sorry but I won't let them milk me.

So I will be playing an incomplete (and probably bloated) game on a console I may not have, a sequel to a first part I may have not liked (aren't you glad multiverses exists in fiction?)

But Square Enix were saying all the time that only its western studios were the underperforming ones.

I played the first one and while some of the filler was fun, I’d rather have had one single game than this piecemeal release.

Hopefully they do a big all-in-one release down the road where you can play the full story seamlessly. I’ll pick it up then.

I just wanted a remake of the original game. Instead they split it into multiple games as a cash grab. I stopped caring after the first one.

I don't want to pay $70 to play part of a game, especially since nothing carries over from one game to the next. I'll play the third one since it will have an actual ending.

Well this is kind of awkward since apparently none of you who have commented have actually played the game. I have played the game. It was actually really really good, surprisingly good. It was more than I thought I would get out of my money for it.

I ended up putting in about 100ish hours. Maybe 120. I felt like I got my money's worth. It had an entertaining premise to everything that happened. It fleshed out everything that was in the original game. I think it was worth the money. I usually can't say that about most games. I agree that it should be on PC as well but it is what it is. It'll be there eventually back on steam like it was the first time.

And for those of you who never even started the first of these part games. The first part, remake was also really good and it was a just solid solid game just by itself. The game alone was worth playing. Even though these games were separated out, they're basically full games by themselves. You could easily play part 1 for about 70 hours. The original final fantasy 7 was only about 50. If you liked final fantasy 7 then you should play these even if you have to wait another 4 years for the last part.

I know it's popular on lemmy to shit on big game companies for doing crap work. You really shouldn't be faulting square for delivering an actual product that was worth the money. This is one of those rare times where the fans asked for a game company to take its time to make a game and they responded by doing just that. That is so rare nowadays that it kind of deserves the money.