Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Pre-Orders Being Charged, Launch Date Reveal "Not Quite Ready"

I got this email. I had to get the overpriced special edition because the standard edition sold out immediately, and I just wanted it physical. :/

I'm not even a big enough FF fan to care about special edition extras, I just wanted the game.

I was not lucky enough to get the NA release of the Standard edition, but I did get a preorder for the first print of the Asia English edition from Play-Asia.

maybe Square is waiting for them to be in a Direct, so they can't say anything?

@EarthboundBenjy

If you just want the physical game, you should buy from Play Asia or VideoGamesPlus and save some money

Wait, they're just now charging people? I had to check my account to make sure that they already charged me back in December when I bought the Special Edition!

@RushDawg

I don't want to mess with my preorder now. I'll just accept my choices. I'm a game collector anyway, I've definitely spent more on worse.

I paid for my preorder of the collector's edition a while ago.

I'm not taking chances.

This is a dumb question, so I apologize, is this collection going to be downloadable from the
switch eShop? I'd rather just do that :/

how bizar it may sound from a guy who owns a ps5, and love legend of zelda games.
for me this is my personal game of the year.
final fantasy 6 is probably the best game i have ever played(maybe even the best game ever made) , i do realize it is not a fantastic looking 3d remake, but this game still have not had much makeovers, so i look very forward to this version also IV, and V wich where very very good.

question is would it be on switch or ps5?
maybe the slightly less better looking switch edition, for when i am in bed.

everything is perfect on this game from an old experienced gamers perspective who have seen it all.

“Digital haven’t appeared on storefronts...”

I thought these are available on Steam for a while now.

@canaryfarmer
Yes there is a digital release thankfully if you don't want to pay a premium for the physical copy.

@Mando44646 Direct, State of Play/Playstation Showcase or FF/Square Enix event seems likely for April. Leaning towards the 2nd or 3rd options because there's going to be FFXVI news in April.

AFAIK eShop policy is to charge one week before release date. Does Squeenix store has something similar in writing?

Very weird. I've been thinking for a while that these were going to be delayed with the lack of release date being announced. But that's crazy, right? Who needs a delay to release a collection of retro games?

SQUARE ENIX: We won't tell you when you'll get your games but we'll gladly take your money first.

@SonOfDracula pedantry knows no bounds, it seems.

@mjharper The problem is not a delay or that it's a retro release, the problem is it's a limited physical release. Unless you pre-ordered from the Square Enix Store or Play-Asia the chances of your getting a physical edition is slim unless you had no problem with a digital release which in that case you could purchase each game separately. My guess as to why they won't tell us when the physical collection will be out is that they may plan to release each game separately first on the digital shop one by one until all games are out before the collection is sent similar to how they did the phone and PC versions.

@BeefSanta If you like to get fed blatantly incorrect information, you do you mate!

Square Enix can suck a lemon. This should have been a standard retail release for console. Anything that must be ordered from the publisher’s website always seems to be a mess and extremely difficult for a normie like me to secure when the scalpers are using bots, etc to suck up all the preorders.

I pre ordered from playasia , basically the same price as from square .

They restocked? More than once? I literally didn’t hear or read anything about it 🤣

@LiquidNinja I was on their mailing list and hadn't heard jack from them, if there are restocks Square Enix probably threw those all to the scalpers. At least Play-Asia got through to me and they aren't even the ones making the games.

What’s the issue with slapping 6 old pixel games onto a cart and releasing it physically on stores? I don’t understand the business model of making the physical editions so limited and locked behind the Square online store. Lately I feel like, is Square even a real company anymore? Is anyone even trying or even cares? Their HD-2D games are generally pretty solid and they obviously care about FF7 as a franchise with all the remakes, but everything else seems to be in the dumpster.

My 2 cents.

I'd like a physical version of this, but that price...

Weird way they're handling the pre-orders, though I'm just going to get the two or three games I want digitally when it eventually does release.

@Serpenterror its crazy. But they keep selling out so Square won’t care how they handle it either way. I’ll check play Asia 👍🏻

Im a bit nervous about buying it from Play Asia.. Is it safe? Supposedly theyre known for bad customer service. Are they really gonna have the game ready if I preorder it or charge me without ever getting the game?

What is wrong with SE handling the release of the Pixel Remasters? First they wait forever to put them on the platform where they are most wanted and will very likely sell best. Then, when they finally bring the collection to platforms other than the PC and phones, they make the physical release an ultra rare store exclusive and overprice the collectors edition. This is bonkers. Put a normal release on store shelves and Amazon, by god. It will sell like crazy. And even if not - it will sell better than this pseudo, intransparent limited run. Awful.

@HefHughner considering how prevalent a lot of their old school releases are (Mana Collection and other FFs come to mind) it is a bit strange

It blows my mind that I was able to walk into a store a few months ago, purchase a new physical copy of Collection of Mana years after release, but a far more well known franchise in Final Fantasy is a limited pre-order from the publishers website. I’ve been on that waiting list since day one and no notification emails have been received. Really wanted a physical copy for this one, but not well enough to be taken advantage of by scalpers.

I just wanna play these games on switch already man...

@SonOfDracula if you believe the readers of this website need to be Um Actually'ed about Steam, I don't know what to tell you other than "they don't" and "that should be obvious".

If it makes ya'll feel any better, I had a ps4 copy on preorder from square enix. I cancelled it and ordered on playasia because the shipping was cheaper. Then I found out the ps4 version was cancelled.

I did manage to preorder a switch version from them, but yeah....That ps4 physical is probably going to be uber-rare. I will laugh if they finally end up just releasing a wide-spread physical version like they should've from the start. Squeenix certainly are acting weird these past few years.

@Justaguest I have been using play-asia for over a decade (just made an order yesterday actually) and I have only had to use the customer service 3 times and they were always very responsive. But I have also heard of people that don’t like them but I use a few import sites but play-asia gets the majority of my import purchases.

I'll just download them as I'm ready to play them. Really curious to see if any real work was done on the fonts and overall UI.

I’ve got a standard edition pre ordered from Playasia. I should be fine.

@Ryu_Niiyama Nice, thank you for the reassurence. Do you have any exprience with preorders? This is a limited quantity release-I wonder whether theyll be able to fulfill their orders?

@Ralizah Same here! Gimme some chunky pixel fonts, baby!

@Justaguest Yeah buying from Play-Asia should be fine, my physical copies of Ultra Age, Ender Lilies, and Fatal Frame IV are all bought from them and those were very recent purchases. They also partnered with PayPal to give you option for quad payments too if you don't want to pay full price all at once though I'm not sure if quad payments applies to pre-order.

@Justaguest I haven't done preorders in a few years (although that reminds me I need to order Baten Kaitos) but the last one I did was a capcom e-store limited release (and was sold out on that actual site) but I got my order from play asia with no issues. and it was a 300 dollar preorder.

@Serpenterror Got it. Thanks! Seems like a reasonable way to pay. Ill try out if it works.

@Ryu_Niiyama Sounds good! I was a bit skeptical with everyone moping that they lost their chance buying the game through Square Enix and here is Play Asia dishing out preorders no problem. Ill try them out!

Square's website has changed the button from "Unavailable" to "Waiting List." Keeping my fingers crossed that they'll have a bunch more to sell at launch.

Most of these games are over 20+ years old how are they not ready to be revealed... Unless the sprites looks like a mobile phone game lol

Have III, IV, and VI on iOS (along with Chrono and Tactics) so yeah, I'll get these remasters too for Switch. It's a shame VI hasn't received an upgrade like III, IV or even VII got.

Overpriced for what you get. 6 30 year old games for $65 dollars. You can get the Mega Man Legacy Collections, Mega Man X Collections, and Mega Man Zero/ZX Collection for less money, and that's 24 games. Just not worth it.

Idc SE, just gimme the PR's on Switch already

Botched ports have a botched preorder process, makes sense.

Square Enix strikes me as the kinda guy you wouldn't give money in advance. I don't know what y'all are thinking.

"Square Enix fans, does this ever happen to you?"

• Scott "Will Eventually Take A Look At The First Mega Man" Wozniak (name pending)

I have I-II and IV on PSP (Superior versions than this so called pixel remaster) V and VI on GBA and PS1 (Again the GBA except for the OST are superior versions, and I guess this collection lock them out of being released on NSO) and re bought I, II, III, IV, V, and VI when they sold them for the first time on IOS, as much as I love the games (Especially VI one of the best games of all time) and physical media, I would not buy this collection, SQUARE ENIX needs to get their s***t together, this artificial scarcity just to get advantage of FOMO is disgusting. I hated the fact that they re released the games on IOS and gave the middle finger to the ones that bought the old versions. Theres no reason at all that this ports of mobile games on a cart are sold the way they are. I bet that in a couple of years we are gonna get 2D HD versions of the games, I ll wait for those. And when this collection inevitably goes on sale on the eshop maybe I will grab them just to have VI on my switch. Its amazing how much you can hate a company that you used to love and support.

FF6 needs the HD-2D treatment so bad, it's the perfect game for it. The pixel remasters do very little for me.

If this physical version was released on actual stores for like 50-60 euros I would buy it in a heartbeat. But Square Enix had to do a Square Enix I guess.

I wish the company would be visited by three ghosts or whatever it takes to just do a standard world-wide physical release the Pixel Remaster, Suikoden 1 and 2 Remaster, and every other game that's coming out.

If they needed to charge more for the cartridge or disc version, then fine - I'm willing to pay and understand that things cost more now, but just make it available without being a headache. It shouldn't be too much to ask. Maybe more will come to light in April when (if?) Nintendo and Sony make their "big" announcements.

I pre ordered the special edition as it was the last to sell out, then I pre ordered the play Asia version.

I'm guessing square will just charge my card on the 5th, I don't have to do anything, right?

I mean, as much as I'm looking forward to them eventually releasing, I'm in no real rush to play the FF Pixel Remasters - mainly 5 and 6 (1 and 2 aren't really that worth revisiting, and 3 and 4 already have excellent remakes on the DS), so I'm happy to wait for them to pull their fingers out and release it on the eShop, then wait for a sale — no way am I paying 70-something quid for two games from 30 years ago

@Maulbert You're comparing a collection of RPGs to a collection of action games. RPGs tend to hold a bigger value cause they are interactive and could be play for shorter or longer depending on contents, quest available, and story structure. That's why they usually hold a bigger price whether they are older titles or remakes. I don't think I've ever seen a collection of RPGs let alone an anniversary collection that cost less than $40 unless they are used copies or on a sale.

@daveMcFlave Suikoden 1 & 2 is just a normal physical collection, it's not a limited anniversary collection like the Final Fantasy: Pixel Remastered Collection. You also can't buy Suikoden 1 & 2 separately, both are bundle together without download code just like Grandia 1 & 2 and the Mana Collection. All the games in the Final Fantasy Pixel Remastered collection will be sold separately on the digital shops but they will all be bundle together via the physical release. If you want to save money just buy them separately through digital. On digital they aren't limited unlike Nintendo's Super Mario 3D All-Stars crap.

My plan is to wait for the digital version on switch. I guess I could be waiting forever technically then.

I’m basically a FF noob (played some of 7 on PSX in the late 90s) so basically plan to start from 1 and go in order.

I’m dying to get them all, really would love a physical version of them, but given the state of things and botched releases, I will probably wait until there are reviews out there.

I was actually charged full price the day of preorder for the Switch Special Edition. It is interesting to me that some people weren't.

@General_Mike I can tell you that 1, 2, and 3 are pretty rough by today's standards and don't hold up. This is a personal opinion of course, but I'd start with 4 and if you fall in love with 4-6, then go back and play the first 3.

Like most all FF none of the stories are connected, so you won't miss anything.

I missed out on the pre-order of course but I am haunted by the Play Asia opportunity. Should I order it? Should I feed my children this month? Why can’t it just be a normal release? Why does SE hate me? I just don’t know anymore.

@Codenamehardhat I’d order from Play Asia. It’s actually quite a bit cheaper than what I paid on Square’s site (which was almost $110 with tax).