Were there other pre-purchase bonuses for the other Final Fantasy games?

[Evaneself]

Were there other pre purchase bonuses for the other Final Fantasy games?
I noticed that FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH has a pre-purchase bonus.

[Evaneself]

I recently bought FINAL FANTASY® VIII, XIII, XIII-2 and X/X-2, but they don't have either a bonus as DLC or in the descriptions. I know what a pre-order bonus is, but maybe they've never been at the older FINAL FANTASY games.

[Evaneself]

Thank you!
I have a bad feeling that I lost so many goodies and bonuses.

[Scarlet Crusade]

On consoles, yes, all the time. Generally, by the time they come to PC, all that stuff is just automatically included. The ending of Sony exclusivity means that future games by Square will now have preorder bonuses even on PC, and you’ll have to wait for DLC releases. That’s the price for not having to wait.

[Evaneself]

Originally posted by Scarlet Crusade:

On consoles, yes, all the time. Generally, by the time they come to PC, all that stuff is just automatically included. The ending of Sony exclusivity means that future games by Square will now have preorder bonuses even on PC, and you’ll have to wait for DLC releases. That’s the price for not having to wait.

Did you pre-order the Final Fantasy games like X/X-2, XIII or VIII on Steam before they were released here?

ChatGBT says:
"For Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on Steam, the soundtrack (OST) was originally offered as a pre-order bonus. It was not automatically included with the standard edition of the game, and players who purchased the game during the pre-order period received a free copy of the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Soundtrack.
However, after the release of the game, Square Enix made the soundtrack available as DLC for purchase on Steam. This means that even if you didn't pre-order, you could still buy the OST separately from the Steam store.
So, to clarify:
Pre-order bonus: The OST was included with pre-orders.
Post-release: The OST is available for purchase as downloadable content (DLC).
If you already own the game and are interested in the soundtrack, you can still purchase it through the Steam store."

I can't find the soundtrack of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on Steam. So it must be in game.

[Evaneself]

I have them on PSN and now I buy them all on Steam again. I am a little late.
This is why I bother you with questions.

[Scarlet Crusade]

Originally posted by Evaneself:

Originally posted by Scarlet Crusade:

On consoles, yes, all the time. Generally, by the time they come to PC, all that stuff is just automatically included. The ending of Sony exclusivity means that future games by Square will now have preorder bonuses even on PC, and you’ll have to wait for DLC releases. That’s the price for not having to wait.

Did you pre-order the Final Fantasy games like X/X-2, XIII or VIII on Steam before they were released here?

ChatGBT says:
"For Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on Steam, the soundtrack (OST) was originally offered as a pre-order bonus. It was not automatically included with the standard edition of the game, and players who purchased the game during the pre-order period received a free copy of the Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster Soundtrack.
However, after the release of the game, Square Enix made the soundtrack available as DLC for purchase on Steam. This means that even if you didn't pre-order, you could still buy the OST separately from the Steam store.
So, to clarify:
Pre-order bonus: The OST was included with pre-orders.
Post-release: The OST is available for purchase as downloadable content (DLC).
If you already own the game and are interested in the soundtrack, you can still purchase it through the Steam store."

I can't find the soundtrack of Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on Steam. So it must be in game.

There’s no such preorder bonus or DLC for the Steam edition of FFX|X-2 HD Remaster on Steam. In fact, there was no preorder for FFX|X-2 HD Remaster on Steam at all. Until more recently, Final Fantasy games on Steam just got released and you could buy them, often without any official announcement or fanfare.

[Scarlet Crusade]

The Final Fantasy XIII trilogy on Steam each came (mostly) complete in box, with no preorder bonuses. I know this very well because I was involved with modding those games as a tester. XIII-2 tried to withhold some of its DLC, not by preorder bonus or even paywalls, just… not enabled, but the data was in the files, so they could be forced enabled. This was met with Lightning Returns on Steam actually removing the files for Aerith’s garb and equipment, which I found a bit amusing.

World of Final Fantasy didn’t have a true preorder bonus, but it had a Day One Edition that you could only buy for when the game was first for sale, I think it was a couple of weeks. Part of the reason that this happened was because it was still relatively new, and they also knew that they could get away with selling the Maxima (Switch version) upgrade as DLC, so they did.

The Pixel Remaster games, oddly enough, came out on PC (and mobile) first, and came out on consoles later, so yeah, as a brand new release, absolutely they could justify preorder bonuses. PlayStation second with these games was pretty strange.

I think Final Fantasy XVI is the first one that’s actually a bit of an anomaly. You can argue that it was still relatively fresh, like World of Final Fantasy, but there was no alternative version like Maxima to consider, and all the DLC was already out. I think it should have come out complete in box, but it is what it is.

But yeah, moving forward, it’s likely that we’ll see PlayStation and PC, maybe even Xbox and Switch, releases all at once like many other publishers do things, and so we won’t have all the content available, there will be preorder bonuses as well as season passes, because that’s just the norm anymore.

[Evaneself]

Thank you very much, Scarlet!