{"id":490051,"date":"2026-02-25T18:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490051\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:10:07","slug":"final-fantasy-7s-new-steam-version-is-already-at-mostly-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/490051\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 7’s New Steam Version Is Already At Mostly Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Steam re-release of Square Enix\u2019s original 1997 classic Final Fantasy VII dropped last night on February 24, and it\u2019s already sitting at<\/a> an \u201cOverwhelmingly Negative\u201d score, with only 36 percent of the 308 reviews being positive. For comparison, the previous Steam version of the game, now titled the \u201c2013 Edition,\u201d has a 92 percent \u201cOverwhelmingly Positive\u201d score. That could be this debacle\u2019s one saving grace, but, unfortunately, Square Enix decided to delist<\/a> the 2013 Edition of Final Fantasy VII when the new version dropped last night.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s somewhat difficult to sum up all of the many issues that users have reported in their Steam reviews due to the sheer number of them, but the main problems reviewers are taking issue with are stuttering sound effects, a forced launcher (that somehow registers inputs even when the game is fullscreened), buggy resolution settings (that don\u2019t actually alter the resolution when selected), and a lack of optional filters. The lack of filters is especially ridiculous, as reviewers are reporting \u201cblurry\u201d visuals, and because the delisted 2013 Edition featured options for linear filtering and an \u201cOriginal Graphics\u201d mode.<\/p>\n

However, the silliest issue has, thankfully, already been patched out. Although \u201cpatched in\u201d might be the better wording here, as several people on X<\/a> reported that the original Steam depot for Final Fantasy VII was 0 kilobytes. That\u2019s not an exaggeration or a joke: someone at Square Enix seemingly forgot to upload the actual contents of the game to Steam.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou guys had what\u2026 13 years? 13 YEARS and all the money in the world, just to add 4 features, controller support, bilinear filtering and steam cloud save files,\u201d reads one review on Steam. \u201cThis version is a disaster avoid it all all costs,\u201d warns another.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, some of the reported issues I chose to omit have been fixed. For instance, the FPS of the original release of Final Fantasy VII has been doubled in the new version on Steam, from 15 FPS to 30 FPS. That sounds great in theory, except that the FPS increase also resulted in animations and cutscenes playing at double their normal speed<\/a>. I can see why Square Enix chose to fix that particular issue first. Hopefully, the speed at which they rectified the issue implies that another patch is on its way soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest Steam re-release of Square Enix\u2019s original 1997 classic Final Fantasy VII dropped last night on February…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[37412,74],"class_list":["post-490051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-final-fantasy-vii","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}