{"id":42889,"date":"2012-08-14T17:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42889"},"modified":"2012-08-14T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:32:21","slug":"final-fantasy-vii-re-re-re-release-now-available-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42889-final-fantasy-vii-re-re-re-release-now-available-sort-of","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy VII re-re-re-release now available&#8230;sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of nowhere, the PC digital download re-release of Final Fantasy 7 has gone live and is now available to purchase &#8211; except, not for you, because you live in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Final Fantasy 7 &#8211; heralded by Final Fantasy fans as the best game in the series (even though that&#8217;s not true, because clearly Final Fantasy 6 was the best) was by no small measure the Final Fantasy that broke the franchise into the West when it launched on PS1 back in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The story follows the elite mercenary, Cloud Strife, as he takes on his old friend and hero &#8211; the white-haired and totes hardcore Sephiroth &#8211; on a journey across the world, wherein players face intrigue, revelation and sadness. All presented through the cubiest character models this side of Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The re-re-re-release of Final Fantasy VII (PS1, PC, PS3, and now PC again) features some nifty new tools, including a Character Booster (if you don&#8217;t feel like <em>grinding<\/em>), Cloud Saves (as he does) and Achievements support (for bragging rights).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, due to South Africa not being a Square-Enix &#8220;serviced country&#8221;, we&#8217;re unable to grab FFVII PC just yet, as it&#8217;s currently only exclusively available through Square-Enix&#8217;s site.<\/p>\n<p>If you know how to circumvent such geographical perplexities, the PC digital download has a special launch price of \u00a37.99 \/ \u20ac9.99 (R102), which is only available for a limited period of time (regular price is \u20ac12.99).<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously a money-making scam to sucker in fans begging for anything FFVII-related, so, naturally, I want it, and will cry quietly to myself (and anyone in the office unlucky enough to be within whining distance) while I wait for it to become available to us plebs in SA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum System Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Windows XP\/Vista\/7 (32\/64-bit)<\/li>\n<li>2GHz Processor or faster<\/li>\n<li>1GB RAM<\/li>\n<li>DirectX 9-compatible graphic card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Final Fantasy VII PC\" href=\"http:\/\/finalfantasyviipc.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\">finalfantasyviipc.com<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40754-final-fantasy-vii-returns-sort-of.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Final Fantasy VII returns&#8230; sort of<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/27739-final-fantasy-7-remake-kitase-keeps-the-dream-alive.html\"><strong>Final Fantasy 7 Remake: Kitase keeps the dream alive<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/28955-final-fantasy-7-remade-in-unreal-engine-3-by-fans.html\"><strong>Final Fantasy 7 remade in Unreal Engine 3 by fans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Review\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/32372-final-fantasy-xiii-2-review-xbox-360.html\"><strong>Final Fantasy XIII-2 review (Xbox 360)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/14682-5-hd-collections-to-look-forward-to.html\"><strong>5 HD Collections to look forward to<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square-Enix&#8217;s latest franchise-milking product is good to go for download &#8211; just not in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":30901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,1089,6222,6223,211],"class_list":["post-42889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-final-fantasy-7","tag-final-fantasy-7-pc","tag-re-release","tag-square-enix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}