FF7 Rebirth - Is It Worth The Price Tag?

Gage Thomas: Is it justifiable for Square Enix to charge the full market price for these three games?

[masterfox]

of course!, this ain't TLOU Remake scam price tag :D

[LeeFender]

agreed!

[mandf]

If you already bought tlou, this isn't for you. It's for those that didn't buy it. Trolling hard are you?

[dumahim]

A remake that actually is built from the ground up.

[Hootzor]

Christ almighty 🤦‍♂️ Yes is the answer. I swear to god if people even click through to this article imma just go die in the corner. These teams spend years crafting these games, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, possibly millions, on production and you wanna ask if it’s right to charge consumers the RRP?

Not to mention Remake Part 1 was a full 40-50 experience on the story alone, which only covered a fraction of the original game. Plus more hours if you’re a completionist. This second part may not even follow the exact events according to the original due to how the first part ended so yes, charge the RRP. If this article/video agrees with me then cool but I’m not giving it the time of day 🤣

[CrimsonWing69]

Why is this a topic now? I see this for The Last of Us Remake quite frequently and now this...

Games, for the most part, have a uniformed MSRP. Value is too subjective because now you're talking about perceived value. What one person thinks is worth the price another could disagree.

What gets me is how did this game get in the cross-fires of this discussion?

Also, I can tell this person has no clue about game design and is obviously a young 'un.

The original FF7 was not $60 when it released. It was $49.99...

Secondly, in order to recreate that entire game and every assets in 3D would take a loooooong time. The original game had pre-rendered backgrounds and images in specific camera angles. Recreating that in an explorable environment takes a lot of work and you're expecting a full 1:1 recreation on top of all enemies, summons, spells, effects, NPCs, vehicles, etc? You have to take into account unique rigging for each enemy as well and summons. Probably a bunch of Mel Scripting involved and blendshapes for facial animations.

Take how long FF7 Remake Part 1 took just for the Midgar portion. Even when you exclude the additional content it's still a lot and took a while. Now stretch that out to an entire game and you're looking at years in development. The way they broke this down to deliver a product makes the most sense. Release the game at a point, recover development costs to reinvest in development of the next part.

If they did it all at once we wouldn't play this game until god knows when.

[kayoss]

If they released this game as a whole. I dont think it would be the same game as we've seen so far. Content will be cut, stories would have been removed/changed/altered. If the FF7 Remake part 1 took about 40-60hrs to complete. Imagine if they released this game as a single part. You're looking at a 120-180 hour game. I bet people would have complained.

But consumers usually complain just to complain. They have the mentality of "the customer is always right", even though they know nothing about game development. Like you said, FF7 part 1 took so long to release. Just imagine if they made this into a single game the development time would have been ridiculous. No worker wants to develope one game for over 20+ years.

[Question_Mark]

If it’s anything like the first part, it’ll be a complete game with dozens of hours of playtime, so yes.

[Lightning Mr Bubbles]

Is this even serious? Of course they are. They're totally new games, remade from the ground up and even with new story. Not only are they worth it, to me they're pretty much my most anticipated games of this whole gen.

[Inverno]

It's not worth 70 bucks just as if it were 60 it still wouldn't be worth it. I've yet to see a reason to justify the increase of game prices, and as the gen continues with shady practices as it has been going all through last gen, more people will eventually see that 70$ games will not be worth it. Less worth it when buying a console game when half the game is inaccessible due to requiring Plus/Gold.
I think this about all games, with that said I'm excited to play this eventually after release

[kayoss]

Inflation my friend. Look it up. Everything in the world have increased in price in the last 15 years since the first game was $60 except for video games. The cost of living, the cost of development, wage increase, business taxes, rent, etc all went up. I'm just glad that it went up by $10 only. If you calculate the trend of inflation, video games should have increased roughly over $100. But again, you can always buy it used, goes on sale, or wait 2-3 months later when the price drop.

[kayoss]

Yes, because the 3 part game was estimated to have a budget of $200 million of dollars to make. Its not like its a remaster or HD version of the game. Its literally a brand new take on an existing game with new graphics, mechanics, etc... Developers and everyone who were involved in making this game need to know that the game that they put their heart and soul into did well. So yes, it is worth the price.

[Popsicle]

Yes…

[Redrex7000]

for people who have waited years and years for this
its worth it lol

[Rainbowcookie]

It's like a game like a tlou remake starts out and every last attention whore writes an article about a random new remake to continue the trend. If a movie is bad don't watch it , if a car is too expensive don't buy it. Why can being a gamer create the atmosphere for a person to go on and on and on about things that he will probably buy anyway , wait for a sale or PSN. Yes that is a sad thing and 70 bucks are probably too much, but are we going to talk about it till we are 70 years old. Man there are worse things out there like loot boxes and paid for held back dlc oh and the new BF

[StarkR3ality]

I get both points really.. from the people justifying one game being made into 3 remakes, the work that gone in is there for all to see, the first game was so lovingly crafted. It's being rebuilt completely this isn't Final Fantasy 7 as you knew it, the amount of content justifies the 3 releases and the near full price tag for each of the trilogy.

Now the people saying it shouldn't have been split into three when the original game was just one and they're scamming people out of their money. That they could have done the same thing and just kept it as one package. Yeah they could have done, and the argument for the fact they would have to cut content is nonsensical as there have been multiple examples (especially in the JRPG genre) of not cutting corners, look at Persona 5 for example. Would the quality have suffered also? Maybe, but that's up to how much work the Dev wants to put in and how much Pride they have in their work.

I think I fall in between leaning towards the price being justified. At the end of the day the games should be fantastic, if the level of quality the first game showed is kept, then absolutely charge what you want for great games. I do however have a little bit of a bad taste from the people justifying the cutting corners when other Devs don't, it's an excuse that isn't logical.

The justification is that the games are great, and they are company that has a right to release and get as much money from the consumer as they can, if you don't like that, don't buy them.

[gold_drake]

yes.
if you like ff7 at all, no matter what game u have played, THIS game is worth the price.