Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis turns Square Enix's best into an avalanche of money-grabbing tactics
Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis turns Square Enix's best into an avalanche of money-grabbing tactics
A close up on Aerith's eyes. She drops a flower. It's crushed underfoot. The camera pans back to an overhead view of Mi…
Ever Crisis is an avalanche of microtransactions and frustrating mobile design that makes one of Square Enix's greatest achievements a miserable experience.
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Right from the off, Ever Crisis pelts you with materials, quests, and bonuses. There are daily login popups, a premium hunt, a special shop with limited items, special weapon draws. The shop has special packs of legendary or epic items, multiple reward passes, memory packs, daily packs of items, and packs of Red Crystals - used as an in-game currency. At the bottom is a section for items purchased with Gil, a currency gained through completing missions, but these are barely useful.
Prices vary on these packs from £1.99 to £69.99, with some purchasable with Red Crystals. Red Crystals range from £2.99 to £69.99 for a bunch. The Monthly Legendary Bundle Pack, for instance, costs 5000 Red Crystals, which would require spending £39.99 on 6200 Red Crystals. The Premium Hunt Season Pass is £12.99, which rewards players with items and vouchers for more items.
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Unsurprising. They already split remake up to milk more money out of long time fans, and now they’re doubling down on the mobile market. I remember long wishing for a remake and now I want my wish back. DAMN YOU MONKEY’S PAW!!!
Can I borrow your monkey’s paw? I want to wish for this timeline to be over.
It turns out this is the only timeline and your wish just ends up destroying the universe.
I’m okay with that, and I would imagine most of humanity would be too.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.