I made the mistake of trying to get a visual copy of The Final VII Remake, a game I've been waiting for for ten years to play, ever since the idea began to knock my brain in my early 20s. It never came, and now I'm looking at the page behind the Ebay prices.
In some cases, more than $ 100. The online marketplace is full of physical copies of The Final VII Remake. A few include the disc. Others put it out case and DLC codes go inside sold separately. The rest of the list requires fans hoping to win battles to end each other's lives. The game is on sale at GameStop, Walmart, Target, and on Plato Enix's own website. Copies are currently starting with $ 105 shipping as well as shipping to Amazon. Some local retailers seem confident that people will pay up to $ 140, more than double the retail price.
I was ordering my copy from Best Buy on April 1. I had my doubts that the first entry in a multi-episode 23-episode reboot would be a good one, but in the end it overcame my growing hype as a kid who spent the entire rest of 1997 singing its friends with questions of what this thing is from the beginning The last thought The commercials seen on TV was there. Somewhere deep down I knew that ordering a copy was a long thing, but everything with the pre-order went well, and Best Buy came back with an estimated delivery date of April 10th.
Square Enix had once tried to warn people like me. "With unforeseen changes in the distribution and sale of various land across countries, some of you may not get your own copy of the game on release day," announced on Twitter on March 18. I also heard from various independent video stores that their distributors did not have copies of the game to send, and that the shipping available was restricted to big box stores. These issues eventually had to cancel a number of pre-merged orders just days before the final issue.
Maybe I will? I wasn't there.
Friday arrived and I left without a pack and reached my stop. UPS tracking details have not been updated. Delay unfortunately, I thought. On Saturday my cousin came to lend me a charger so I could dump the dead Rav4 battery and tell me in great detail how good it was The Final VII Remake It's also hard to change the gloves to the big Cloud image that came with the $ 300 First Class Soldier version of the game he ordered months ago.
Then comes the UPS truck. We got out of the moving area. Finally, my brown pack came down. After that I jumped out of the car, bought groceries, and finally returned home and discovered that the package was actually some item that my partner had left for my middle school art class. Days later, after being caught up with the best guy from Best Buy, the company announced that my copy of the game was officially "lost" and returned my money.
Why didn't I just download the game (almost all 100GB of it) digitally? Then I'd be concerned about that The Final VII Remake encouraged in a box upstairs in my attic 15 years from now when my child finished high school and maybe lived on a planet that was built to be an unattainable green space or one turned into a struggle to stop it? One week after its release and I no longer crave the game, all because I wanted a physical memento to mark the return of one of his favorite video games with endless and inescapable things.
And yet a specific part of me wants a visual copy of the game now more than ever. I'm not a collector, but I've played real The final concept of VII in the game's introductory program instead of having the most recently reprinted copies of "Hits Hits" has created a small but not uncommon script in my fandom game appendix. Be warned for one annual edition of the edition that I do not want to participate in. With the outbreak of the epidemic and millions unemployed, this feels like a terrible time to give away too much cheese with a piece of plastic, and still find myself clinging to the luxury of fitness.
Or at least that is how I feel today. Maybe a week from now, I'll be intrigued and start downloading a digital copy. But until then, I still hope for a chance to catch up The Final VII Remake in my hands, before the whole world crumbles into dust, my precious video game with it.
