{"id":730734,"date":"2026-06-11T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730734\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:10:09","slug":"final-fantasy-7-revelation-director-feels-streamers-are-causing-a-bit-of-a-crisis-for-rpgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730734\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director feels streamers are causing &#8220;a bit of a crisis&#8221; for RPGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Final-Fantasy-RPGs-crisis.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Final-Fantasy-RPGs-crisis-656x369.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Streaming games online for others to watch is more popular than ever today, but Final Fantasy 7 Revelation director Naoki Hamaguchi believes that it\u2019s causing \u201ca bit of a crisis\u201d for RPGs.<\/p>\n<p>Hamaguchi explained in an interview that some fans might be more interested in simply watching a stream instead of actually playing. Because of this, he feels game developers need to inspire people to pick up the game for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Hamaguchi said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.4gamer.net\/games\/013\/G101379\/20260607016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4Gamer<\/a> interview (thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/final-fantasy-vii-revelation-director-says-todays-rpgs-need-more-player-agency-because-fans-may-be-satisfied-just-watching-streams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Automaton<\/a> for the translation):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing RPGs like Final Fantasy need to be careful about today is the possibility that people might simply watch a stream and feel satisfied without ever playing the game themselves. This is a bit of a crisis for the work itself, or rather, it\u2019s not something game creators can wholeheartedly celebrate\u2026 if people watch a stream and it makes them think \u2018What would I do in that situation?\u2019 or \u2018How would I experiment with that?\u2019, then hopefully they\u2019ll be inspired to try it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note that in the interview, Hamaguchi wasn\u2019t ragging on streaming in general. Hamaguchi says he\u2019s been trying to challenge himself with Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Birth, and Revelation. He also feels that entertainment should evolve and adapt rather than stubbornly clinging to old ways.<\/p>\n<p>Right now you can play Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade and Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2 with Revelation coming in 2026. Check out the first screenshots of Revelation on the console <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/here-are-the-first-final-fantasy-7-revelation-nintendo-switch-2-screenshots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streaming games online for others to watch is more popular than ever today, but Final Fantasy 7 Revelation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,263159,32668],"class_list":["post-730734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-final-fantasy-7-revelation","tag-square-enix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}