PS4 FF7 Remake

I can dig open world, hell when I first played Everquest if you wanted a map you'd better get to drawing didn't have in game maps back then. Even then SWG, FF... the first online one... yeah was fun to a point, and again Fallout, new and original. On that note, Dragons Dogma still sucked, think the disk is buried somewhere in the closet, not even good enough for the shelf.

Eitherway, yes an open world can be worth playing, hard to play casually I'll admit, easy to get lost or forget where/what your doing even with notes and quest logs. Still isn't FF7. I'll stand by the desire to have a world map to navigate.

Back to how stupid game companies can be... look up the old messages on Starwars Galaxies' "Combat Update" (CU). Before they pushed it out, SOE expected a 50-60% loss of player base. Still did it.

Even after they lost more like 75% (mostly because a large portion of those 60% had 3-4 accounts but still lost money, not really the players you want to cut loose), they still backed it. Eventually they gained maybe 20% or so, short term players (not good income for a paid subscription game). When all those left, they half fixed some of the complaints with the first CU with a "New Game Enhancements" (NGE), which brought back a few old formerly loyal customers, right up until it died completely.

Point being, any company is willing to shoot itself in the foot if they think it'll make them a quick buck, and few of them anymore care about loyal customers at all. (Like those or us that used to buy every single FF game that came out even if we knew nothing about it.) I was that way, till they started "improving" the game play.

But hey, some producers think they are to big to fail, (take a loss sure but fail no) and maybe a few are, don't mean they'll get my money.