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The site leak from a couple weeks back was confirmed today as Square Enix officially announced the existence of the Final Fantasy VII re-release on PC via its official site and social media.

The site is either really poorly optimized or is getting absolutely hammered right now (probably a bit of both, in fact), so you might not be able to reach it. It's pretty general information, and most of it is stuff that was reported before from the leak. One thing certainly worth noting is that the site says the game will be available exclusively from the Square Enix store, which would imply that the achievements and cloud saving features will be unique to this game and will not use technology like Steamworks. Additionally, the exclusivity might mean that a Steam (or Origin, if you're a masochist) release may not be in the cards at all.

Will it still be worth the rumored twelve-dollar entry fee without Steam? I'm no longer sure it is for me, but I'll have to see how it looks and runs, first. That information isn't yet available, nor is any kind of real release date.

Source: Final Fantasy VII PC

Yay! Maybe. We'll see. I don't have any experience with the Squenix Store, and if it has too many remnants from the ORIGINAL FF7 PC, that's a problem, but otherwise I've been wanting to replay the game for awhile - ever since beating Crisis Core - so this would probably be the best way to do just that.

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I'm with Neal, so long as it works better than the original Final Fantasy VII PC, I'll buy the thing with pleasure, regardless of Square-Enix store. I've been dying for a play-through of this game for a while now, might as well hold off until this comes out. I have to say I'm not crazy about adding micro-transactions to the game, and I'd be disappointed to hear if very many people used that feature. A good chunk of the fun of the game for me was the materia grind. I wonder if they'll give this version anything new to go along with these achievements.

This post has been edited by Dragon_Fire on 4th July 2012 17:20

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Okay, but there was a goat!

i've always loved collecting achievements for my favourite games. just sad to know the achievements won't make it to the PSOne classic version on PSN oh well life goes on

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For me it seems to be a re-release for the PC with archievements, character stats trainer/cheats, compability to new OS and hardware and slightly improved graphics - Is it just me or do the screenshots seem to be a way less pixelated than the original game?

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For me it seems to be a re-release for the PC with archievements, character stats trainer/cheats, compability to new OS and hardware and slightly improved graphics - Is it just me or do the screenshots seem to be a way less pixelated than the original game?

Where are you seeing screenshots? I see rendered stuff from the original release, but no actual gameplay shots.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

This new release had better not crash every time I enter the chocobo races.

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