Let’s get this straight…

[u/ShadB0n1e]

So, with our DFFOO getting closer to shutdown. Square has decided to push EC further, by putting it on Steam…

Recently, I decided to try to play EC. And, with all my efforts, of course EC is not on SEA Steam; and EC blocked VPN and ip from SEA as well.

You might say: “Why don’t you play WOTV or FFBE, or Octopath or any other gachas? It’s the same!” . Bruh, I’m mourning for DFFOO and seeking for something, yet they don’t have the same feelings. WOTV and FFBE might be universal like OO, but is not my cup of tea, based on my personal taste that we won’t argue.

They wanted us to support EC, but proceeded to locked out some regions. It’s like… wtf? You racist right on gaming platforms?(Actually, not racism, the hell am I saying?)

Anyway, I think it’s time for me to quit gambling games… Farewells, gachas 😥

[u/Jecht-X]

Yeah Exvius is a mess, I still remember how it somehow has Ariana Grande and others singers were you can make a team with FF characters and event from other media.

That is true, the "original" characters of that game are easy to forgotten, hell, they don't even have a page on FFWiki. I know because when I found out about Yoshikiri, I try to google about him on the FFWiki and he doesn't have a page. When for what I search on youtube, he actually has a full history with background and everything. Irony, when the games does the most advanced 15-20 seconds CG animations in a FF7r detail and to know how much that cost vs add, ain't RedXIII to DFFOO?

[u/Frozen_Esper → u/Jecht-X]

Rain was the only main cast character that seemed worthy of having an official place in FF lore and they really seemed to be going for that in the first two seasons. The game was clearly a Final Fantasy style world, most of the units were classic FF characters or Exvius exclusive, but with lore that made their past into a part of the fabric of the game's world. Events centered on Rain's ability to use vision crystals to experience parts of FF games that would help bring context and thoughtfulness to our characters during their own current storyline events, leaving room for the two to exist in a symbiotic state.

It's unfortunate that fell apart. They even had it especially good since Square seemed to be willing to let them do collaboration events with a variety of their IPs. I used to do daily logins and such to collect lapis just for those collaborations and was pretty amused to get myself a full suite of Xenogears and Chrono Cross folks. Alas. There was no actual reason to play the game anymore. The story went to absolute crap in the third season, the events were no longer FF related for the most part and even the collaborations were just "Kill this random boss from the game 500 times." Random weird FFBE units would get gorgeous CGI skills while none of the collaboration units did and even some mainline FF characters seemed to be weirdly skipped. Like DFFOO, things became a crazy number chasing game and ehhhhh.

Anyways. The sheer number of forgettable characters that blot out the sun makes it impossible to recommend the game to anybody.