FF6 remaster is just cashgrab?

[JimbonX]

FF6 pixel remaster is just cash grab? Why would anyone want to buy the improved 1994s version then the Game Boy Advance version that is much better? Game Boy Advance has:

More Espers from Final Fantasy 8.
New dungeon, with a super boss.
Bugfixes
Lots more.

(Only downside was the sound/music, sounded horrible and wasn't becasue of Gameboy Advance, was just poor conversion to GBA)

[impmallet]

Every time you buy a product like this that is "eh good enough" then you will always get more products that are just "eh good enough".

Consumers really need to start demonstrating some restraint and voting with their wallets, or else companies will keep walking all over us, like Square-Enix does. The reasons you see "remasters" like this that are at most side grades (but in my opinion a worse experience) is because they know they have a loyal and rabid fan base that will dismiss and devalue any meaningful criticism of their products, good or bad. They have effectively weaponized their own customers.

Remember, you are the consumer, you have all the power, you just need to exercise it. If this game isn't what you wanted, don't cave, just walk away. If you buy it and it turns out it's not what you wanted, don't hesitate, just refund it and walk away. If you don't like it, and have the ability to do so, leave a bad review explaining in detail what you don't like about it. It's the only way to enact change, please exercise your consumer power.

That's my soap box, I won't be able to review this game because I won't be buying it, but maybe someone with SE PR will see this and know that not everyone is satisfied with how they are doing business.

[MenjoBleeko]

When you get down to it, literally every product ever produced is a "cashgrab" ...

They're making something people want, and they want money for it.

Don't like it? Don't pay.

That's literally capitalism.

[Sleeper]

Ka-ching

Square needs to remake FF6 like they did with FF7, this is my favourite FF in the series.

[Dangerous-Boy]

Originally posted by Sleeper:

Ka-ching

Square needs to remake FF6 like they did with FF7, this is my favourite FF in the series.

same.

[Shin]

It's very simple.

Instead of releasing a port of a snes games as is, they release a remaster version of it.

So the pc crowd have, at at the same time a better version, and an available version.

If people with the original version also want to pay for it on pc, because they like what they see, then it's double benefit.

I don't see any cash grab in this.

[Super]

Originally posted by Shin:

It's very simple.

Instead of releasing a port of a snes games as is, they release a remaster version of it.

So the pc crowd have, at at the same time a better version, and an available version.

If people with the original version also want to pay for it on pc, because they like what they see, then it's double benefit.

I don't see any cash grab in this.

Wait until they release the additional content of every version... as a new game instead of DLC.

[Seraphita]

Originally posted by Rupika:

Why did they abandon (Old Ver.) for this? (Old Ver.) looks 4x better.

You mean the mobile trash that was FF6's first "iteration" on Steam? The lazy piece of crap that they ported with crappy visuals that ruined the entirety of what FF6 is supposed to be?

https://i.redd.it/yytm01uhvh871.png

You mean THAT lower left example of absolute garbage compared to the three others ones?

[Seraphita]

Error... So you mean THAT mobile trash that's clearly inferior to the three others. (Even gba)

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/image12.jpg

This abomination, you mean? Vastly superior graphics? Not sure what you smoked but no.

https://www.fortressofdoors.com/content/images/2015/12/ffvigarbage.jpg

This garbage we talk about? And this is not even the battle ui, which was equally horrible.

https://www.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1493/14930800/2419344-nexus7_battle_1_us_1389809025.png

Just making sure but this is the rubbish you're praising, right? You gotta play real FF6... >.>

[Seraphita]

Originally posted by Rupika:

Yes, the one with much cleaner graphics. The one which doesn't have 16-bit pixel graphics upscaled to 4k when it was originally intended for CRT screen. And looks 10x worse now than it did in the 90s. Yes.

Well, you're wrong about everything. This abomination that you defend was the worst insult ever made to FF6 in its entirety. They tried to pass it as the real game to people who played THE real game and to people who didn't know better. We don't need that shame on steam.

Now that we have the pixel remaster(s), we can finally enjoy FF6 and other ones in the way they were intended to be enjoyed, assuming they don't have bugs or anything. These pixel remasters are the definitive versions of the game, not impostors like mobile versions were.

[Seraphita]

Originally posted by Rupika:

I don't really care about the overly hostile ranting of a blind fanboy. Please stop talking at me.

"Talking TO me" and you're the one talking to me. I'm just pointing out that you're praising mobile trash and you seem pretty upset about being called out for it. Sorry but you will not get any sympathy from me. They ruined a perfectly good game and they're fixing that. lol

"hostile ranting of a blind fanboy" is... pretty ironic. It makes you sound like the hostile one. If I'm a fan"boy" because I care about the quality of FF6 and I'm not blindly pretending that a mobile trash is a good edition of it, then I guess. You're whiteknighting the wrong game...

[Shin]

The mobile version looks horrible tbh.

It looks like very colorful chibis, which is totally against the tone of the game.

[Gosen]

This game has almost 30 years. It should be freeware at this point. the price is a joke. We get lot of free games on Epic, which were released in recent years, yet Square put this here and asks for 15$, lol.

[Shin]

Originally posted by Gosen:

This game has almost 30 years. It should be freeware at this point. the price is a joke. We get lot of free games on Epic, which were released in recent years, yet Square put this here and asks for 15$, lol.

It is freeware if you consider it so, that's what emulation is.

Personally it depends on the developers and if they make some effort to release a new version of the game.

Nintendo just releases the same N64 games on the shop, and sometimes they aren't even emulated properly, so I emulate all their games I bought long ago and sold for 5€ at my local retailer.

Those pixel remasters though, have a remaster soundtrack (which are amazing), way better graphics for FFI-III, and light upgrades for FFIV-V, which is ok because the goal of those remasters is to just put them available to the PC market first and foremost.

For me that justifies the price, but I understand it doesn't for some people.

[Locklave]

This is a new and interesting thread. How fortunate for us that the OP considered this thing that has never been considered before.

[bluedri]

you could add cheese to a hamburger and call it something different, i would still buy it. I don't see how this is any different. Its something i like and something i want.