{"id":752322,"date":"2026-07-09T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752322\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:03:15","slug":"final-fantasy-7-ever-crisis-dies-before-the-remake-trilogy-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752322\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis Dies Before The Remake Trilogy Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/final-fantasy-vii-ever-crisis-will-have-loot-boxes-1846503244\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis<\/a>, a gacha game that incorporated stories from across the greater Final Fantasy VII series, will shut down later this year. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ffviiec.com\/news\/producers-letter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post on the Ever Crisis website,<\/a> game producer Shoichi Ichikawa was surprisingly candid about the reason for the game\u2019s shut down. \u201cIt has become difficult to find a balance between production costs and the demand for character weapons and gear,\u201d he said. Players will have a few more months to enjoy the game before Square Enix shuts the servers down on October 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Ever Crisis was launched in 2023 on mobile and PC. With a simplified version of the original Final Fantasy VII\u2019s combat, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/square-enix-is-finally-making-the-final-fantasy-vii-cin-1846365025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ever Crisis was more than just a straight-up retelling<\/a> of the time Cloud and a couple of his situationships banded together to stop another one of his situationships from blowing up the planet. Ever Crisis also incorporated new stories and new characters (some of whom <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-glenn-ever-crisis-first-soldier-1851293589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found their way into the FFVII Remake series<\/a>), fleshed out Sephiroth\u2019s backstory a little more, and also put the whole Final Fantasy VII crew in weird but fun alternate universe storylines, like that one time <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ffviiec.com\/ec-academy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where they were all in high school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ever Crisis also won\u2019t be the first time Square Enix has spun up and then shut down a Final Fantasy VII mobile title within a couple of years. The company tried its hand at getting in on the battle royale craze (several years too late) with <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/final-fantasy-7-battle-royale-doesnt-just-work-its-tig-1848105694\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier<\/a>. After launching in 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/ff7-first-soldier-battle-royale-mobile-shut-down-pc-ps4-1849647758\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Square shut that game down two years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But like an agave plant in its death bloom, the Ever Crisis development team isn\u2019t done with the game just yet. The developers plan to release a ton of content in the game\u2019s last days, including re-running past events and serving up a final story chapter that producer Ichikawa says will send the game off in style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis, a gacha game that incorporated stories from across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[37412,322598,165,11045,74],"class_list":["post-752322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-final-fantasy-vii","tag-final-fantasy-vii-ever-crisis","tag-mobile","tag-square-enix","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752322","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=752322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}