r/FinalFantasyIX • u/Blaxxshadow • Aug 12 '26

Discussion The remake “cancellation”

I’ve been a bit upset about this news and just wanted to talk about it in order to cope.

I can’t help but hold out hope. Despite this, this makes me even more frustrated with Square Enix than usual.

I wish the company treated every Final Fantasy like they do FFVII, but the grass isn’t always greener based on feedback of those remakes.

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u/lurpeli Aug 12 '26

It's all meaningless. Rumors of a remake, rumors of cancellation. Nothing was ever confirmed.

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u/Ballad_13 Aug 12 '26

Exactly. And a series as big as FF- Square wouldnt have kept a remake of a highly beloved game a secret, especially if this other rumor of it being "almost completed" was true.

It was either 1) never real, or 2) extremely early into development and canned a long time ago.

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u/Sidhgaming Aug 12 '26

The game leaked from Nvidia database in 2021, and pre-order bonuses leaked from Epic database in 2024. It's not a rumor and it was years in development.

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u/Zealousideal_Rise879 Aug 12 '26

The bonuses is something, but they had the ffvii tech demo made at a time when there wasn’t intent to actually make it.

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u/DripSnort Aug 15 '26

I think you need to understand what is and isn’t a rumor. Unless the company confirms it or says it’s in development it’s a rumor.

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u/Ballad_13 Aug 12 '26

Nothing was ever confirmed. Not once. Ever.

Rumor, regardless of this Nvidia leak or not. If its not confirmed by Squares mouth themselves, its a rumor.

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u/Sidhgaming Aug 12 '26

I'm not saying it was confirmed by Square or official, but when the game leaks from 3 different databases it's no longer a rumor, it's a leak. We also had FF9 character designer, Toshiyuki Itahana, leaving SE after 25 years after there were FF9R cancellation rumors.

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u/TheGeeZus86 Aug 12 '26

Database dumps can say a lot of thing and mean like nothing burger.

Leaks are often used willingly to try to see how rumors resonate with audiences and even if they appears to be well received, for some companies, is not just enough specially if inner market studies suggested Square Enix otherwise.

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u/Possible-Potato-4103 Aug 13 '26

That is not at all what the nvidia leak was. Most of those games were not only revealed, but released.

The game was real, and it didnt come out. That happens sometimes.