Aeris is still dead: No FF7 remake, says Square Enix (again)
Face it, kids. Aeris is dead. Even flower girls have to pass away sometime, don’t they? *teardrops* Now, the past few weeks played witness to a couple of petitions to game developers, asking them to either port or remake a certain game into some other platform. Capcom seemed to have gotten the brunt of it, with people asking for a Resident Evil for the PSP and soon after asking for a Wii version for Resident Evil 5. Square Enix though wasn’t exempt from the petition hounding.
A(nother) petition to remake Final Fantasy VII had slowly climbed its way to 20,000 signatures over the weekend. Are we surprised? No, not really. Who wouldn’t want an FF7 remake anyways? Besides, the rumor about Square Enix supposedly already developing it (and using Unreal Engine 3 no less) has been making its rounds in the internet since the advent of… err.. children. But regardless, Square Enix seems adamant about their stand on (not) creating a remake for the game.
The RPG giant just sent a reply to Gaming Today, who contacted them about the said “Remake Final Fantasy 7” petition hitting 20,000 signatures. The response of Square Enix reads:
Our parent company, SQUARE ENIX of Japan, has no current plans to create a sequel or remake to that particular title at this time. This is not to say that it will never happen, itÂ’s just that their development teams are currently focusing on numerous other projects.
In other words, there’s no FF7 remake. For now. But we can hope, right? (Right; as if we haven’t for the past decade.) But hey, it’s understandable that they’re busy. They’ve got quite a beefy lineup of titles set to come out. There’s Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for the PSP, the Crystal Chronicles titles on the DS and Wii, plus FFXIII on the PS3. And we can’t count out all the other remakes like Star Ocean and the third installment of Kingdom Hearts.
As of writing, the petition stands with 24,051 signatures strong. If you want to sign it, you may click on the off-site link here.
Face it, kids. Aeris is dead. Even flower girls have to pass away sometime, don’t they? *teardrops* Now, the past few weeks played witness to a couple of petitions to game developers, asking them to either port or remake a certain game into some other platform. Capcom seemed to have gotten the brunt of it, with people asking for a Resident Evil for the PSP and soon after asking for a Wii version for Resident Evil 5. Square Enix though wasn’t exempt from the petition hounding.
A(nother) petition to remake Final Fantasy VII had slowly climbed its way to 20,000 signatures over the weekend. Are we surprised? No, not really. Who wouldn’t want an FF7 remake anyways? Besides, the rumor about Square Enix supposedly already developing it (and using Unreal Engine 3 no less) has been making its rounds in the internet since the advent of… err.. children. But regardless, Square Enix seems adamant about their stand on (not) creating a remake for the game.
The RPG giant just sent a reply to Gaming Today, who contacted them about the said “Remake Final Fantasy 7” petition hitting 20,000 signatures. The response of Square Enix reads:
Our parent company, SQUARE ENIX of Japan, has no current plans to create a sequel or remake to that particular title at this time. This is not to say that it will never happen, itÂ’s just that their development teams are currently focusing on numerous other projects.
In other words, there’s no FF7 remake. For now. But we can hope, right? (Right; as if we haven’t for the past decade.) But hey, it’s understandable that they’re busy. They’ve got quite a beefy lineup of titles set to come out. There’s Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for the PSP, the Crystal Chronicles titles on the DS and Wii, plus FFXIII on the PS3. And we can’t count out all the other remakes like Star Ocean and the third installment of Kingdom Hearts.
As of writing, the petition stands with 24,051 signatures strong. If you want to sign it, you may click on the off-site link here.