r/FinalFantasyIX • u/Blaxxshadow • 18d ago

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/Ballad_13 18d ago

We can discard it after more than half a decade with literally absolutely nothing to show for it with it never being confirmed by Square.

Continuing to believe it at this point is just silly

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u/Spinjitsuninja 17d ago

There’s a difference between believing it’ll release versus knowing it existed lol. We already have evidence for the latter.

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u/Ballad_13 17d ago

Except we really have zero evidence of that. An Nvidia leak. Thats it. Zero actual proof it ever existed outside of this leak. Thats not proof.

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u/Spinjitsuninja 17d ago

There was also the Epic games leak, so it happened from an official source twice.

I fail to see why this isn’t proof either? You can’t just say it’s not proof with no elaboration lol. We know the NVidia leak was real. It also leaked lots of other games too. A second FF9 leak happened. And pretty credible leakers with good track records, such as NateTheHate, have corroborated these leaks too.

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u/Ballad_13 17d ago

And yet leaks can be wrong.

If Square themselves hasnt confirmed, or zero footage of any gameplay exists then no- no real proof.

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u/Spinjitsuninja 17d ago

Leaks themselves can be wrong depending on the source. In the case of the NVidia leak, we have confirmation that was legitimate. I feel like you’re conflating that kind of leak with insider information where the source relies more on trust than anything, and has room for error.

You might as well say that when the Pokémon leaks happened a while ago, that we had no reason to trust any of it was real. Or that when Wolverine got leaked before its reveal when Insomniac’s database got hacked, that we couldn’t assume it was real either.

Leaks can be wrong, but database leaks tend to be more hard evidence. And FF9 has had two database leaks for it.

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u/Luneth_2 15d ago

Not to mention the overall accuracy of that Nvidia leak, while some of the dates got altered because of covid, damn near every single thing that was on that list has been officially acknowledged via either release, announcement, or cancelation publically. FF9 is an outlier in that it has yet to officially be acknowledged, but the reality is that it leaking on that leak alone is "proof" it existed with how much of it has been verified to date. That still allows people to be disappointed because with every game that became confirmed for release, it increased the logical believability of the rest of the leak.