{"id":19586,"date":"2022-07-19T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ffvii-remake-intergrade-unavailable-for-some-ps5-owners\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T23:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:10:47","slug":"ffvii-remake-intergrade-unavailable-for-some-ps5-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ffvii-remake-intergrade-unavailable-for-some-ps5-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"FFVII Remake Intergrade Unavailable For Some PS5 Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"
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those with PlayStation Extra or Premium memberships<\/span> eager to catch up on the events of Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/em>‘s DLC, Intermission<\/em> (god, these names) might be out of luck if they got a digital version of the base Final Fantasy VII Remake <\/em>on PlayStation4 or 5. <\/p>\n

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade, <\/em>which packages the base game and the Intermission <\/em>DLC was a surprise expansion of the 2020 release from Square Enix. It included a separate, new chapter in the revised story of the original. Focusing on Yuffie Kisaragi, this side story helps bake her character into the narrative a bit more organically, as she was a completely optional and totally missable character in the original PlayStation release in 1997. <\/p>\n

If you’re somewhat of a Final Fantasy VII <\/em>scholar, then you know there were some other ambitions to include her and the story of her village, Wutai, into the main story of the original release. since Remake<\/em> aims to tweak elements of the old story, it makes sense to see optional characters like Yuffie and the gun-wielding Vincent Valentine serve more essential roles in the story. But if you owned a digital copy of Remake<\/em> on PS4 or PS5 before Intergrade <\/em>came out, this new story content might be tricky to get on Sony’s subscription service. <\/p>\n

Sony’s take on the Game Pass formula of offering a selection of older and more modern games for subscribers<\/span> has brought Stray<\/em>a ton of Assassin’s Creed<\/em>and the the very awesome Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade<\/em><\/span>. But as reported by Video Games Chronicle<\/em><\/span>there’s a bit of a twist: Intergrade<\/em>the package deal combining the 2020 remake of the 1997 PlayStation classic is what’s available on the subscription service, not Intermission<\/em>, the new episode focusing on the character Yuffie. You cannot acquire Intermission <\/em>separately on the service. What’s worse is that if you owned the original Remake <\/em>digitally, you can’t even download the full Intergrade<\/em> combo In some cases, you may not be able to play Intergrade <\/em>at all, even if purchased, ace Kotaku <\/em>found.<\/p>\n

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Kotaku <\/em>has reached out to Square Enix and Sony for comment. <\/p>\n

As it stands, attempts to download Intergrade<\/em>, <\/em>for users with this existing predicament of having owned the original digitally already, are met with an error that says:<\/p>\n

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You can’t buy this product for the following reasons:
You already own the following products, which conflict with the product you’re trying to buy: FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reddit user bLinkbruhyen reported their experience and frustration with this complication on r\/PS5<\/span>sharing their communication from Square Enix that indicates nothing more than the obvious: If you have Final Fantasy VII Remake<\/em> digitally, then you cannot get Intergrade<\/em> as a part of your PlayStation subscription. A follow up edit from PlayStation seems to suggest that a change might be on the way, but nothing’s certain. <\/p>\n

As bLinkbruheyn points out in their post, they’re unlikely to be the only ones who got a digital copy of Remake <\/em>when it was free via PlayStation Plus last year. This is echoed by Twitter user LasTedOnEarth, who described the situation as \u201cunfair.\u201d<\/p>\n