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Final Fantasy VII and VIII are on Steam - but will likely never see release

Square Enix has had versions of Final Fantasy VII and VIII uploaded to Steam's online service for months but they are yet to and likely never will be released to the public, RPG Site can reveal.

The PC versions of the game are based off the PC ports released by Eidos back in 1998 and 2000. Eidos were of course later purchased by Square Enix, which presumably meant this code fell back into their hands.

Most interesting of all, the PC version of Final Fantasy VIII appears to have been edited from its original version in an attempt to force the game to run better (or at all) on modern operating systems.

Karuto4693d ago

I loved the PC version, but if it is only on Steam, the fact that you can't install these mods makes me wonder of its appeal.

tdrules4693d ago

steam is pretty mod friendly

Ocelot5254693d ago

not really for old games

tdrules4693d ago

@Ocelot525
such as Deus Ex, Half Life 1, Max Payne?
cos they support mods on PC

buckley4693d ago

Since when can you not install mods on steam versions of games?

Karuto4693d ago (Edited 4693d ago )

Hah, what the hell was I thinking? I must still be half asleep. Of course you can use mods. I guess I meant to say that it would have been a great way to reinvigorate the modding community to focus on this game again if Square had modified the game to work on today's hardware. Seeing conversion mods would be fantastic, but so many modders were bogged down by the atrocious porting job by Eidos.

zeal0us4693d ago (Edited 4693d ago )

So guess I'm going to have buy the pc-port if I really want it.

"Would you be interested in playing a PC port of the original classics if it looked and performed better than the original abysmal PC port? "

Idc give me something rather than nothing at all.

AP4693d ago

Vita or 3DS would both be ideal for something improved but not expensive to make. Fingers crossed.

PirosThe4th4693d ago

It's gonna be tough though... There seems to be a huge gap between the 3DS and the Vita powerwise.

The 3DS is just as powerful as a PSP with just modern shaders and effects.

I will see the same problem that DS and PSP had... how they ended up having different games altogether ...

AP4693d ago

Oh, I didn't mean together - I just meant one or the other. Either or.

elbeasto864693d ago

I'm actually glad. I have my original copies and the psn releases. I don't need to triple dip on these games.

buckley4693d ago

You say you're "glad" as if to suggest that you somehow benefit from the fact that another platform won't be playing these games.

elbeasto864693d ago

I say I'm "glad" because I won't be tempted to buy and play these games on a third platform for the 100th time.
For the record I say what I mean, I don't imply anything when I write something. If thought that I benefited from these games not being released on steam then I would say so, but I didn't so I don't. And just because the game is not on Steam doesn't mean that people can't play these games on a pc. I'm sure ebay has some listings for these pc versions.

AP4693d ago

He can be glad on a personal level without being glad to spite everyone else, I think..

Emilio_Estevez4693d ago

They should just release this with a disclaimer stating it might crash alot. People would still buy it.

AP4693d ago

Not sure Valve allows that. They have standards of what can be released, and running smoothly is a big part.

Emilio_Estevez4693d ago

I thought that might be the case, but would they just allow it with a disclaimer? Or maybe they could say: Valve, fix this so we can release it and will give you a higher %, please?

news4geeks4693d ago (Edited 4693d ago )

Valve always allow it. Most older games on steam require fixes to actually run them or play them without game breaking bugs, and they just leave it to the community to work out the fixes. Thankfully there are some talented people in the PC community.

TenkoTAiLS4692d ago

From memory the PC versions did look slightly better and less grainy. Plus they fixed up alot of the spelling errors and bad translations in Final Fantasy 7. One minor thing I remember noticing was that in the PC version the character models had mouths, pretty sure the Playstation version they didn't, always found that odd.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein1d 1h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii21h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo20h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9020h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel198911h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus2h ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha21h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno21h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan20h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno20h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198120h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn66912h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19816h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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I’m Glad Atlus & SE Changed Dates To Avoid Competing With Shadow Of The Erdtree

Saad from eXputer: "I'm glad I don't have to choose between Square Enix, Atlus, and FromSoftware due to bad release windows and Shadow of the Erdtree."

H94d ago

More intelligent than guerilla games

raWfodog3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Atlus is releasing their game one week before Erdtree, SE is releasing theirs one week after.

HZD released four days before Zelda, HFW released one week before Elden Ring.

It seems to me like they are still releasing their games too close to Erdtree.

VincentVanBro2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What a word vomit, rambling, turd of an article that simply states the obvious. Classic exputer.

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Yuji Naka guilty of insider trading breaks silence to accuse Square Enix producer of lies

Yuji Naka was fined $1.2 million and given a suspended jail sentence for the crime.

Profchaos18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

I find his comments around how Balan turned out to be very insightful as to why the game is trash. He basically apologises for its existence

solideagle17d ago

can you please give some of us who don't know anything about this, a summary of what happened?

Chocoburger17d ago

Balan was knowingly rushed out by S-E, it had an extremely short dev cycle and was fairly low budget.
Naka was the game's director until near the end when he was fired or perhaps he quit, I forgot.

carrotcakeag17d ago

@Chocoburger Yeah they did fire and replace him which caused him to unload a bunch of rants about the company. The project only existed because of Naka in the first place, he convinced Square to give him one shot at making a platformer. They gave him an opportunity but pulled the rug out before he was done for reasons not explained.