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This is the worst part of the Remake Trilogy from a capitalist standpoint. Instead of making 1 game which would be much cheaper and faster to make and sell many copies, they decided to make 3 games, spend a lot more money, invest time and employee resources that could otherwise be used to make other games, and sell fewer copies making less money overall across 3 games. Square Enix was so blinded by their greed they quite literally chose the worst possible option when remaking FFVIIThey simply chose the wrong path, or to be more precise, greed ruined them. There was absolutely no reason to split one 40-hour game into 3 parts and increase its duration by 3-4 times. All they had to do was what Capcom does and their recipe for Remakes - take an old game, create a neat remake of a classic, refresh it a little in places so that it looks normal from a gameplay point of view and make nice modern graphics, that's all. It would have been one game for 40-60 hours, on 2 disks and everything would have been great for them and there would have been no problems with sales.
In the end, they still have one more game left, they still need to finish the ending, and now they still have to push a filler for 20-30 hours into the ending to justify the price of $70, and all this will lead to a situation where, in the end, in the time that all the remakes are running, the original can be played 3-4 times from start to finish.
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