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Hearing Comprehension

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Sagacyte
on 2014-12-24 at 08:41 (2024 Views)
Oh, SquareEnix, we love you. No, really, we do. Even if sometimes you do the silliest things, or say the most insane stuff that man can come up with. To be fair, for every "we're bringing Final Fantasy VII to Playstation 4" fiasco there's an event like the Final Fantasy XIV Fanfest that took place this weekend.

A nice and interesting post popped today in the official Playstation Blog by SE, penned by Hajime Tabata (director for Type-0 and XV), wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - and indeed, 2015 is a big year for Square in the FF front: Type-0 is releasing next year on PS4/X1 and XV is... still in development (but at least we have seen it to be in development!). The kicker, though, is the image displayed in the post:



This is a pretty nice way to start some Christmasy discussion and spread the holiday cheer, right? Right! Unless, of course, you look at the comments:



And these are just the first 6 comments. Reading through the rest shows a great majority siding with this sentiment, with few antagonizing the mob - thankful that we are getting Type-0 at all.The reason behind this negativity from the community isn't entirely unfounded, though.

For those out of the loop, some background: FF Type-0 was a PSP game originally part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis universe (a.k.a. the XIII universe), considered to be a worthy entry in the franchise. Fans wanted the game to be dubbed/subbed and brought to the rest of the world. The game never left Japan. When the Playstation Vita came out, many hoped SE would port or remake/master the game for the new console. During E3 2014, after the Sony conference there was an unfortunate accident. While fans were left wondering why there was no new XV or Kingdom Hearts 3 info (after 2013's fantastic reveals) a quick and sudden post in the Playstation Blog announced what many had been expecting for years: Type-0 was coming, in HD, for Vita! Confirmed even by Sony's Vita man, Shahid Kamal! However, after a few minutes, it was revealed that the post had a critical typo: Type-0 was coming to PS4 (and X1), not Vita. Fans got pissed.

Back to present day, SE saying "your voices made Type-0 HD possible" is a bit funny. They heard fans voices... just apparently they weren't listening properly. Fans wanted it for Vita. Yeah, PS4 makes more financial sense, and we are getting Type-0 in some form (which is good news). But I can't help but at least understand the angry side of the horde - I am also a Vita user.

Game on.

- Sagacyte

PS: Lack of image scaling gets on my nerves

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  1. Abandon - 2014-12-24 08:47
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    Needs to be on Vita.
  2. Sagacyte - 2014-12-24 09:15
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    It does, but at this point in time, we should be glad it's coming to PS4 and suck it up. It's sad for Vita owners like me, but alas, reality is reality.
  3. Mina - 2014-12-24 09:31
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    No matter what is ever said or done there will be a negative response to it, especially on the internet. People are quicker to hone in on negativity and feel urgency to fix it which is why we use it to our advantage.
    I am immediately sad not because I disagree with the response to the holiday post but because if a team was trying to understand the fans and connect with them they just got slapped for it. I all too often hear from my developer friends that trying to please fans comes with a burden of having to hear it through negative posts on official forums or their personal sites. They remind themselves all the time that even though its angry and spoken as if the person isn't a fan that it just comes from someone who cares a lot.

    I do hope they get the game on the Vita in the future. I do hope that he enjoys his holiday and is safe. I do hope that he doesn't get brow beaten at the Reddit RMA. I really hope that he understands that even though there is negativity on his post that it's because fans care and want to play the game. They are just trying to get his attention quickly by being negative. SE just needs to continue reaching out and even if we bite their hands for it, hopefully they will never stop.
  4. Charismatic - 2014-12-24 09:57
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    Eh, I don't see how "we should be glad its coming to PS4 and suck it up".

    To bring the game over [I]because[/I] of those people's efforts and to put it on a system that many of them probably don't even own is kind of a slap in the face.
    I am one of the people who participated in #JRPGVita but I don't even 'own' a PS4.

    I'm not too concerned about it though, I've already played the game by now and it was definitely a great game.